Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
