Certain Quotes by Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

— Mark Twain

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

— Mark Twain

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”

— Mark Twain

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

— Mark Twain

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

— Mark Twain

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

— Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

— Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

— Mark Twain

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was…

— Mark Twain

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man…

— Mark Twain

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing…

— Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that…

— Mark Twain

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good…

— Mark Twain

To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a…

— Mark Twain

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted…

— Mark Twain

But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down…

— Mark Twain

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be…

— Mark Twain

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the…

— Mark Twain