Doe Quotes by Mark Twain

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

— Mark Twain

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

— Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

— Mark Twain

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

— Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

— Mark Twain

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

— Mark Twain

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

— Mark Twain

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

— Mark Twain

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment…

— Mark Twain

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but…

— Mark Twain

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there…

— Mark Twain

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

— Mark Twain

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by…

— Mark Twain

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

— Mark Twain

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is…

— Mark Twain

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the…

— Mark Twain

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It…

— Mark Twain

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not…

— Mark Twain

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for…

— Mark Twain

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no…

— Mark Twain

“THANKSGIVING DAY. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do…

— Mark Twain

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision…

— Mark Twain

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known…

— Mark Twain

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has…

— 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

Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it…

— Mark Twain

There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave.…

— Mark Twain

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form…

— Mark Twain

I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me…

— 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

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is…

— Mark Twain

when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .…

— Mark Twain

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan…

— Mark Twain

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter…

— Mark Twain

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve,…

— Mark Twain

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel…

— Mark Twain

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

— Mark Twain

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed…

— Mark Twain

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does…

— Mark Twain

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

— Mark Twain