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Age Quotes by Mark Twain

55 Age quotes by Mark Twain

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Twain notes that three‑quarters of charity support comes from conscience money across ages. He jokes that wrinkles simply mark where smiles have been, and a bright flower in a button‑hole can shave off years. He also says that even at sixty, life feels like enough exercise.

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

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.

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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

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

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

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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I…

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You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

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Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first…

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

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I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody…

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

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

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

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

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

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The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

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It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and…

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited…

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

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Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was…

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

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Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that…

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

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The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

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

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

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

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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of…

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

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This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which…

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.