I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Quote by Mark Twain
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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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Mark Twain Quotes
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
- God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
- 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.
- Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
- In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
- The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Best Quotes
- Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
- Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.
- Most cooks try to learn by making dishes. Doesn't mean you can cook. It means you can make that dish. When you can cook is when you can go to a farmers market, buy a bunch of stuff, then go home and make something without looking at a recipe. Now you're cooking.
- As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
- Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.
- I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
- Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
- The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.
- I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.