| Quotes |
Topic |
| Manners | Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. |
| Manners | It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. |
| Materialism | Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol, you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. |
| Men and Women | Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. |
| Mind | I have a prodigious quantity of mind, it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. |
| Miscellaneous | A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. |
| Miscellaneous | The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. |
| Miscellaneous | We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened. |
| Miscellaneous | I never let schooling interfere with my education. |
| Mistakes | Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. |
| Moderation | Temperate temperance is best, intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. |
| Modesty | Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. |
| Mothers | My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. |
| Music | Wagner's music is better than it sounds. |
| Music | We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. |
| Obscurity | Obscurity and competence, That is the life that is worth living. |
| Opinion | It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. |
| Optimism | There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. |
| Originality | The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. |
| Originality | What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. |
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