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A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Mark Twain
Wedding, Flower, Sunshine

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Mark Twain
Truth, Science, Fiction
Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

Mark Twain
Religious, Fear, People

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Mark Twain
Ignorance, Honor, Study
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2483, GENERAL PRESS

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mark Twain
Truth, Honesty, Memories
Mark Twain, Classics HD (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)”, p.2, Classics HD

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Mark Twain
Religious, Blood, Law
"Complete Works of Mark Twain".

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain
God, Educational, Tired
Notebook, 1903

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

Mark Twain
Doubt, Watches, Bricks
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4158, Delphi Classics

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Mark Twain
Past, History, Doe

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain
Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Anger
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain
Nature, Men, Chastity
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.320, Courier Corporation

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

Mark Twain
Miracle, Style, Too Much
Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.203, Createspace Independent Pub

Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

Mark Twain
Country, Patriotic, Men
Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

Mark Twain
Funny Relationship, Men, Thinking
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.18, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

Mark Twain
Inspirational Life, Home, Men

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Mark Twain
Integrity, Real, Carpe Diem
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Mark Twain
Life, Truth, Honesty
Following the Equator ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Mark Twain
Birthday, Growing Up, Memories
"Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Mark Twain
Mistake, Thinking, Feelings
Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.272, Penguin

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

Mark Twain
Cost Of Living, Cost, Popularity

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Mark Twain
Heart, Eye, Judging
Mark Twain (2016). “Joan of Arc”, p.117, Ignatius Press

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Mark Twain
Politics, Idiot, Imagine

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Mark Twain
Mistake, Apples, Want
Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 2, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Mark Twain
Friendship, Communication, Learning
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.176, Courier Corporation

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.

Mark Twain
Hurt, Kindness, Children
Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated): Including Letters & Biographies – The Complete Works of Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.4595, e-artnow

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