Age Quotes by Mark Twain

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

— Mark Twain

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

— Mark Twain

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

— Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

— Mark Twain

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

— Mark Twain

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

— Mark Twain

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

— Mark Twain

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

— Mark Twain

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is…

— Mark Twain

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

— Mark Twain

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from…

— Mark Twain

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set…

— Mark Twain

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out…

— Mark Twain

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what…

— Mark Twain

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

— Mark Twain

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put…

— Mark Twain

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all…

— Mark Twain

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations which would envelop the globe and…

— Mark Twain

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &…

— Mark Twain

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get…

— Mark Twain

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and…

— 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

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon…

— Mark Twain

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear…

— Mark Twain

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in…

— Mark Twain

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the…

— Mark Twain

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little…

— Mark Twain

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we…

— Mark Twain

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as…

— Mark Twain

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

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

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

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

— Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

— Mark Twain

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

— 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

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I…

— Mark Twain

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to…

— Mark Twain

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