Mark Twain Quotes of Wit and Wisdom
Inspirational Quotes from America's Greatest Humorist to Make You Smile, Think, and Grow!
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“Wit, by itself, is of little account. It becomes of moment only when grounded on wisdom!” and “Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms!”
Those are the words of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, acclaimed as "the father of American literature" and "greatest humorist the United States has produced”.
Mark Twain had something witty and wise to say on just about any topic, and his words resonate surprisingly well today as they did more than a century ago. “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please” sounds as if someone is talking about today’s political landscape. But that is what Mark Twain said in 1890!
He was a defender of women's rights and believed, "What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce." He was against slavery and commented, "Our Civil War was a blot on our history, but not as great a blot as the buying and selling of Negro souls." He advised people to “keep a tidy soul” and believed that “The secret of getting ahead is getting started!”
Here are what this audiobook will offer you:
- Set of 365 best quotes of wit and wisdom gathered from Mark Twain's books, letters, lectures, and autobiography
- A perfect gift for family, friends, and colleagues
- An easy book that you just listen to anytime, start anywhere, and always enjoy
- A bonus chapter on how others saw Mark Twain
- Wisdom and inspiration while being amused
If you are looking for a highly entertaining and inspiring collection of epigrams and witticisms by America's greatest humorist, then Mark Twain Quotes of Wit and Wisdom is 100 percent for you!
Just scroll back up and click the "buy" button!
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- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Edith Hamilton shows us Rome through the eyes of the Romans. Plautus and Terence, Cicero and Caesar, Catullus, Horace, Virgil, and Augustus come to life in their ambitions, their work, their loves and hates. In them we see reflected a picture of Roman life very different from that fixed in our minds through schoolroom days, and far livelier.
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Not so bad
- By steve on 04-25-11
By: Edith Hamilton
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The Art of Manliness - Manvotionals
- Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues
- By: Brett McKay, Kate McKay
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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What makes a man manly? Master the art of manliness by learning about the seven manly virtues in this essential guide from authors Brett and Kate McKay. Each chapter covers one of the seven virtues and is packed with the best classic advice ever written down for men.
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Just Quotes, No Content. Save Your Credit!
- By chris on 10-28-13
By: Brett McKay, and others
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Life Is Worth Living, Part 1
- By: Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
- Narrated by: Fulton J. Sheen
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Original Recording
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Here is the best of the audio from the famous Catholic television program, "Life is Worth Living!" For more than 30 years, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the voice of the Catholic Church, with his radio and television ministries that touched hearts all over the world. His wisdom and gentle insight are once again available in digitally remastered audio recorded from his live programs.
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Amazing audiobook!!!!
- By Amazon Customer on 07-03-14
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom)
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Michael Lunts
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the epitome of his famous aphoristic style. 'Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.'
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I am now a full-fledged fan of Nietzsche
- By RS on 02-24-18
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Discourses: Complete Books 1-4
- Adapted for the Contemporary Reader (Harris Classics)
- By: Epictetus, James Harris
- Narrated by: Greg Douras
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The Discourses of Epictetus are a series of extracts from the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. This is the complete version containing books one - four. Each book has been carefully adapted in to modern English to allow for easy listening. Enjoy.
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Classic work that is too often overlooked . . .
- By Bill Beaulac on 05-29-18
By: Epictetus, and others
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The Wisdom of Life, Counsels and Maxims
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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'The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.' Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century because his humanistic, atheistic, if pessimistic views chimed with a new secularism that was emerging from a Western society dominated by religion. Despite his rather forbidding image (and a few outdated views), he is one of the most approachable German philosophers, and this is certainly evident in these two key works, The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims.
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depressingly hopeful
- By Sebastian huerta on 06-22-17
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Notes from the Underground (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett - translator
- Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground Man, who represents the voice of his generation. An emotional, paranoid knot of contradictions, the spiteful narrator is also desperate to join a society he loathes, if only to prove his superiority to it.
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Amazing
- By Bryan on 02-19-19
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and others
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- By: Balthasar Gracian
- Narrated by: Keira Grace
- Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom was written in 1647. It is a collection of 300 maxims on various topics, each elaborated with a commentary. The sayings offer advice and guidance on how to live well, advance socially, and be a better person.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Narration
- By John P. Owens on 08-31-22
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The Greek Way
- By: Edith Hamilton
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on a thorough study of Greek life and civilization, of Greek literature, philosophy, and art, The Greek Way interprets their meaning and brings a realization of the refuge and strength the past can be to us in the troubled present. Miss Hamilton's book must take its place with the few interpretative volumes which are permanently rooted and profoundly alive in our literature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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...Not as Good as The Echo of Greece
- By The Masked Reviewer on 11-04-16
By: Edith Hamilton
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
- By: Arnold Bennett
- Narrated by: Eric Brooks
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This classic personal time-management book, originally published in 1908, has inspired generations of men and women to live deliberate lives. Not just another collection of timesaving tips, this book is more of a challenge to leave behind mundane everyday concerns, focus on pursuing one's true desires, and live the fullest possible life. Reflection, concentration, and study techniques make it easier to accomplish more truly rewarding undertakings than anyone ever dreamed possible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well written, well read.
- By Lauren on 02-21-12
By: Arnold Bennett
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What’s Wrong with the World
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this important book, G.K. Chesterton offers a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues, even more relevant today than in his own time. With a light, humorous tone but a deadly serious philosophy, he comments on errors in education, on feminism vs. true womanhood, on the importance of the child, and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters’ assaults on the common man and the family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The mind that finds...
- By Darwin8u on 05-24-17
By: G. K. Chesterton
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Plato's Republic
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Republic poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, and which ones should be fostered and which ones should be discouraged? How does knowing differ from believing?
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BEWARE: shortened version
- By Dranu on 03-08-20
By: Plato
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Seneca - On the Shortness of Life: Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
- By: Lucius Seneca, James Harris
- Narrated by: Scott R. Smith
- Length: 59 mins
- Unabridged
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De Brevitate Vitae (frequently referred to as On the Shortness of Life in English) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits. According to the essay, nature gives man enough time to do what is really important and the individual must allot it properly.
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Terrible narration. Sorry I purchased this one!
- By Ellis Vee on 01-12-17
By: Lucius Seneca, and others
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Symposium
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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The Greek word sumposion means a drinking party (a fact shamefully ignored by the organizers of modern symposia), and the party described in Plato's Symposium is one supposedly given in the year 416 BC by the playwright Agathon to celebrate his victory in the dramatic festival of the Lenaea. He has already given one party, the previous evening; this second party is for a select group of friends, and host and guests alike are feeling a little frail.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Greek Philosophy over a Good Wine
- By Cathy on 02-16-06
By: Plato
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The Story of Philosophy
- The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and insightful book
- By ESK on 01-25-13
By: Will Durant
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- Rhys Faulkner
- 06-14-21
Listen and Love!
This audiobook really provides the best quotes from Mark Twain. It's time to listen, think, and grow.
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- Max
- 06-09-21
Very thoughtful
I got this on a whim thinking it would be neat, and was pleasantly surprised! I found myself laughing at many quotes, as well as thinking very hard about others. It was a lovely spread of quotes!
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- Momma cass
- 01-23-23
Listen to this book and hear what Mark Twain may have sounded like.
Mark Twains quotes will make you think and wonder. The things he must have experienced in his lifetime.
The reader was delightful and sounded much like my image if he himself must have sounded if MT had read the book himself.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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- Michael Brookes
- 06-14-21
I like it. Impressive!
I purchased this audiobook for my cousin. He likes it very much and thanks me. Well narrated.
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- Tyler Parsons
- 06-07-21
Worth listening!
Mark Twain Quotes of Wit and Wisdom is a fabulous audiobook that informed me and made me laugh and cry. My husband and I enjoyed it, our 6-year old granddaughter wanted to listen to it again. I am slightly in love with Stan Hardy now and cannot wait to share some of his work with my own daughter.
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- Ellis Potts
- 06-14-21
Great, easy to listen.
I am a huge Mark Twain fan. I do believe that this is one of the most intelligent audiobooks I have ever listen to. This book is perfect for all.
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- Amy Giles
- 06-14-21
The Wit & Wisdom of Mark Twain!
One of my favorite authors. A great addition to my Mark Twain library. Need more from Stan Hardy.
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- Brandon Cooke
- 06-07-21
Let's listen and enjoy!
Before listening to this audiobook, I had limited knowledge of twain. He is one of the best writers I have ever listen to. His wit and veiled sarcasm made me smile. Easy to listen to and easy to follow. That is a rare quality. highly recommended.
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- Aimee Craig
- 06-14-21
Just what I Needed!!
There will never be another Mark Twain and this audiobook has some of his Inspirational Quotes. This is a great audiobook, just right for tucking into my library. We should all have one.
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- Jamie Bee
- 01-22-23
Timeless Mark Twain Quotes
Whether you're a voracious reader or not, you've likely heard more than one or two of Mark Twain's infamous quotes. This audiobook gathers 2 hours’ worth of quotes and divides them by theme. I definitely knew some to me, and I could actually say them along with the narrator, while others were ones I had never heard. They're not necessarily all humorous, but I found the audiobook enjoyable anyway. The narrator talks with a slight twang and conveys enthusiasm for the sometimes zany quotes. Sometimes the narrator mispronounces a few words. For instance, he actually pronounced the state name of Connecticut—as in one of the infamous titles of a Twain book, *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court—as “connect-i-cut” and occasionally pronounced “pauper” as “powper.” If you like old-timey humor and universal insights into human strengths and weaknesses, you may enjoy this audiobook as much as I did.
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