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
- Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Best Quotes
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
- There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
- One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
- Electricity is really just organized lightning.
- Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
- If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.