Mark Twain Quotes about Purpose

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The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

Funny, Religious, Purpose

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

Mark Twain

Waiting, Purpose, Strange

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

Mark Twain

Devil, Chicago, Purpose

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.

Mark Twain

Broken, House, Purpose

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.166, Univ of California Press