Equator Quotes

• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

  Mark Twain

  Integrity, Animal, Men

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 27

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• With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Exception To The Rule

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• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Kings, Europe

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Fun, Adventure

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Lines

  Vincent van Gogh (1988). “Van Gogh: A Retrospective”, Park Lane Enterprises

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• The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Sea, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2291, Delphi Classics

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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• We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Poetry, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.480, Library of America

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• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Fake People, Halloween

  Following the Equator ch. 66, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Jealousy seems the absolute reversal of love. It is the swinging from the sunny warmth of the Equator to the frigid cold of the North Pole.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Jealousy, Cold, Sunny

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

  Herman Melville

  Strong, Wall, Men

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.292

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• There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Money, Business

  Following the Equator ch. 56, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Political, Principles, Literature

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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• In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Graduation

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Deception

  Following the Equator ch. 59, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

  Mark Twain

  Jealousy, Envy, Gossip

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Cities, Orbit, Habitat

  Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.189, Penguin

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• Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Literature, Valuable

  Following the Equator ch. 7, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Edmund Burke 25

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• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

  Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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