A Quote by Mark Twain

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

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Combination Conversation Gives Good Good Memory Immortality Memory Middle Tied Tongue Tongue Tied Which

Quote Author

Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Jennifer Weiner

When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?

Charles Spurgeon

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.

Stephen Covey

As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

Ben Bova

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Nelson Mandela

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Frederick Lenz

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

Edward Everett

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

Nick Cave

I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.

Cyrano de Bergerac

I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.

B. R. Ambedkar

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

Tony Harrison

There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.