Quotes - Ivan Bulić (Croatia) Showing 1-23 of 23

#1

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

tags: birth, born, day, important, life, reasons-why, true

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#2

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: honors

631 likes

#3

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-to-mark-twain, quote-investigator

816 likes

#4

“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies

475 likes

#5

“Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.”
― Mark Twain (Author)

tags: politics

437 likes

#6

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
― Mark Twain

338 likes

#7

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: censorship

351 likes

#8

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain

tags: whiskey

294 likes

#9

“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: government

281 likes

#10

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
― Mark Twain

288 likes

#11

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain

tags: paradox

278 likes

#12

“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
― Mark Twain

tags: grief, judgement, pain

192 likes

#13

“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
― Mark Twain

tags: music

185 likes

#14

“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

168 likes

#15

“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, preparedness

155 likes

#16

“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.”
― Mark Twain

157 likes

#17

“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”
― Mark Twain

124 likes

#18

“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain

tags: impossible

137 likes

#19

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”
― Mark Twain

tags: dance, hurt, hurting-heart, love, money, work

106 likes

#20

“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed, friendship, humor

86 likes

#21

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, tragedy

86 likes

#22

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”
― Mark Twain

tags: prose, vocabulary

88 likes

#23

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: invention, non-physical-phenomena, progress, science

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