Children Quotes by Mark Twain

“Poor little doggie, you saved HIS child!”

— Mark Twain

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

— Mark Twain

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

— Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contemptand children.

— Mark Twain

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

— Mark Twain

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

— Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

— Mark Twain

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

— Mark Twain

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

— Mark Twain

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

— Mark Twain

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

— Mark Twain

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

— 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…

— Mark Twain

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

— Mark Twain

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon…

— Mark Twain

“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to…

— Mark Twain

Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it…

— Mark Twain

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love…

— Mark Twain

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and…

— Mark Twain

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a…

— Mark Twain

“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed…

— Mark Twain

“When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of…

— 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

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey…

— Mark Twain

“He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with…

— Mark Twain

Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first…

— Mark Twain

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

— Mark Twain

A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug,…

— Mark Twain

“Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your…

— Mark Twain

“The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is…

— Mark Twain

“Hang the boy, can't I never learn anything? Ain't he played tricks on me enough like that for me to be looking…

— Mark Twain

“A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every…

— Mark Twain

“You are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I…

— Mark Twain

“Now what has kept your leaves so green, Arbre Fée de Bourlemont? The children's tears! They brought each grief, And you did…

— Mark Twain

Children and fools always speak the truth

— Mark Twain

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

— Mark Twain

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and…

— Mark Twain

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

— Mark Twain