It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Quote by Mark Twain
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Mark Twain Quotes
- 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.
- I never let schooling interfere with my education.
- We have the best government that money can buy.
- The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- When in doubt tell the truth.
- My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Best Quotes
- Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
- To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
- Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
- The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.