Time Quotes by Mark Twain

Geological time is not money.

— Mark Twain

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

— Mark Twain

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

— Mark Twain

Don't wait the time is never just right.

— Mark Twain

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

— Mark Twain

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

— Mark Twain

If I had more time, I would have written less.

— Mark Twain

Humor is tragedy plus time.

— Mark Twain

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

— Mark Twain

“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”

— Mark Twain

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

— Mark Twain

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

— Mark Twain

Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

— Mark Twain

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

— Mark Twain

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”

— Mark Twain

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

— Mark Twain

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government…

— Mark Twain

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not…

— Mark Twain

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,…

— Mark Twain

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah…

— Mark Twain

There isn't time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. there is only time for loving--& but an instant, so…

— Mark Twain

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for…

— Mark Twain

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would…

— Mark Twain

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our…

— Mark Twain

“by and by it got sort of lonesome, and so I went and set on the bank and listened to the current…

— Mark Twain

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)…

— Mark Twain

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was…

— Mark Twain

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977…

— Mark Twain

“To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had…

— Mark Twain

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,…

— Mark Twain

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders…

— Mark Twain

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only…

— Mark Twain

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing…

— Mark Twain

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the…

— Mark Twain

“It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream - till you got a bite. A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was…

— Mark Twain

“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being…

— Mark Twain

“Among you boys you have a game: you stand a row of bricks on end a few inches apart; you push a…

— Mark Twain

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and…

— Mark Twain

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

By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely but unintelligently…

— Mark Twain