Mark Twain Missouri Quotes

#1. It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling
it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. Ants that encounter in their path a dead philosopher may make good use of him.

Stanislaw Lem

#3. In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Mark Twain

#4. Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is happening, is happening just the wayit must, in order for you to have the opportunity tocreate the experience of your Self for which you yearn.

Neale Donald Walsch

#5. We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

Emma Caulfield

#6. Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable.

Daniel H. Pink

#7. No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

Jimmy Kimmel

#8. For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt
something is gained but something is lost.

Zadie Smith

#9. Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

Hal Holbrook

#10. Who are we as individuals to judge the masses?

--used recently in a debate

Nicola Black

#11. Irene demanded. "There's too much sexism in Xanth.

Anonymous

#12. Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!

Gerard De Nerval

#13. Men's freedom is their unfaithfulness: the Son of Heaven or the son of a peasant, they could both reduce me to the mediocre torments of a woman.

Shan Sa

#14. I am a border-ruffian from the State of Missouri. I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption. In me, you have Missouri morals, Connecticut culture; this, gentlemen, is the combination which makes the perfect man.

Mark Twain

#15. No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood