--- title: "13 Awful Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "13 Awful quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Awful sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/mark-twain-22_awful_human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-a_2698590.png" --- > [Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-another/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/mark-twain-22_awful_human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-a_2698590.png) > [The machine has several virtues... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-machine-has-several-virtues-one-may-lean-back-in-his-chair-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e7/mark-twain-22_awful_the-machine-has-several-virtues-one-may_3165478.png) > [It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-easier-for-a-cannibal-to-enter-the-kingdom-of-heaven-through/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c91/mark-twain-22_awful_it-is-easier-for-a-cannibal-to-enter-the_332978.png) > [In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/in-early-times-some-sufferer-had-to-sit-up-with-a-toothache-and-he/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23d/mark-twain-22_awful_in-early-times-some-sufferer-had-to-sit_901205.png) > [A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-gifted-person-ought-to-learn-english-barring-spelling-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/702/mark-twain-22_awful_a-gifted-person-ought-to-learn-english-b_452505.png) > [I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-do-see-that-there-is-an-argument-against-suicide-the-grief-of-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b2/mark-twain-22_argument_i-do-see-that-there-is-an-argument-again_930988.png) > [The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-newspaper-that-obstructs-the-law-on-a-trivial-pretext-for-money-s/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/mark-twain-22_america_the-newspaper-that-obstructs-the-law-on_2238015.png) > [Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/do-not-fear-the-enemy-for-your-enemy-can-only-take-your-life-it-is/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/mark-twain-22_america_do-not-fear-the-enemy-for-your-enemy-can_1206090.jpg) > [I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-don-t-speak-german-well-but-several-experts-have-assured-me-that-i/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/mark-twain-22_acquaintance_i-don-t-speak-german-well-but-several-ex_1686656.png) > [It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-awful-undermining-to-the-intellect-german-is-you-want-to-take-it/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92a/mark-twain-22_awful_it-s-awful-undermining-to-the-intellect_340201.png) > [It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-not-like-studying-german-where-you-mull-along-in-a-groping/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e06/mark-twain-22_awful_it-is-not-like-studying-german-where-you_20304.jpg) > [My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-philological-studies-have-satisfied-me-that-a-gifted-person-ought/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9b/mark-twain-22_awful_my-philological-studies-have-satisfied-m_595116.png) > [I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-am-trying-to-get-the-hang-of-this-new-fangled-writing-machine-but-i/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f77/mark-twain-22_acquire_i-am-trying-to-get-the-hang-of-this-new_1616851.jpg) ## Other authors on Awful ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "13 Awful Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-another/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/mark-twain-22_awful_human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-a_2698590.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/mark-twain-22_awful_human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-a_2698590.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29a/mark-twain-22_awful_human-beings-can-be-awful-cruel-to-one-a_2698590.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The machine has several virtues... 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No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. 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