Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Quote by Mark Twain
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Mark Twain Quotes
- There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
- It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Best Quotes
- I get along with guys most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
- Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
- What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
- As it seems to me, the poetry of the highest rank or the most real verses isn't created anywhere, except dramatic situation, or when Melpomene wins a victory over Euterpe.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
- Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.