--- title: "7 Fifty Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "7 Fifty quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Fifty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/mark-twain-22_cents_don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fift_748358.png" --- > [Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fifty-cent-word-will-do/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/mark-twain-22_cents_don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fift_748358.png) > [Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/stars-are-good-too-i-wish-i-could-get-some-to-put-in-my-hair-but-i/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/mark-twain-22_black_stars-are-good-too-i-wish-i-could-get-so_819072.jpg) > [Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/medicine-has-made-all-its-progress-during-the-past-fifty-years-how/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f41/mark-twain-22_execution_medicine-has-made-all-its-progress-durin_1196833.jpg) > [It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-sound-judgment-to-put-on-a-bold-face-and-play-your-hand-for-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad8/mark-twain-22_chips_it-is-sound-judgment-to-put-on-a-bold-fa_1478426.png) > [If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-i-were-required-to-guess-off-hand-and-without-collusion-with/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f42/mark-twain-22_advancement_if-i-were-required-to-guess-off-hand-and_2171509.png) > [Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where-do-we-arrive-with-our-respect/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfa/mark-twain-22_adam_very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where_2462437.png) > [Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/methuselah-lived-to-be-969-years-old-you-boys-and-girls-will-see-more/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/352/mark-twain-22_age_methuselah-lived-to-be-969-years-old-you_2944326.png) ## Other authors on Fifty ## 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/fifty/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "7 Fifty Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fifty-cent-word-will-do/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/mark-twain-22_cents_don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fift_748358.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/mark-twain-22_cents_don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fift_748358.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d7/mark-twain-22_cents_don-t-use-a-five-dollar-word-when-a-fift_748358.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Stars are good too. 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