The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Notebooks’ (1935) p. 237
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think
of the other person.
‘Notebooks’ (1935) p. 345
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake; he
wanted it only because it was forbidden.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 2
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we
owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 3
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage
with a college education.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 5
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 7
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 10
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 11
Put all your eggs in the one basket, and—watch that basket.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 15
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 19
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.
‘Pudd’nhead Wilson’ (1894) ch. 19
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger’s
admiration—and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly
to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go.
But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted
one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.
Speech to New England Society, 22 December 1876, in ‘Speeches’ (1910) p. 59
There’s plenty of boys that will come hankering and grovelling around you when you’ve got
an apple, and beg the core off of you; but when they’ve got one, and you beg for the core and
remind them how you give them a core one time, they say thank you ’most to death, but there
ain’t-a-going to be no core.
‘Tom Sawyer Abroad’ (1894) ch. 1
There ain’t no way to find out why a snorer can’t hear himself snore.
‘Tom Sawyer Abroad’ (1894) ch. 10
The cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that
distinction.