--- title: "10 Foolish Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "10 Foolish quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Foolish sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/mark-twain-22_foolish_people-always-more-and-more-foolish-unle_3102957.png" --- > [“People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/people-always-more-and-more-foolish-unless-they-take-care-to-grow/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/084/mark-twain-22_foolish_people-always-more-and-more-foolish-unle_3102957.png) > [Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/life-is-but-a-dream-a-grotesque-and-foolish-dream/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/mark-twain-22_crazy_life-is-but-a-dream-a-grotesque-and-fool_3017836.png) > [I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-was-young-and-foolish-then-now-i-am-old-and-foolisher/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/516/mark-twain-22_age_i-was-young-and-foolish-then-now-i-am-ol_1996407.png) > [A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-reputable-lawyer-will-advise-you-to-keep-out-of-the-law-make-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f1/mark-twain-22_advise_a-reputable-lawyer-will-advise-you-to-ke_232040.png) > [A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-photograph-is-a-most-important-document-and-there-is-nothing-more/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58b/mark-twain-22_caught_a-photograph-is-a-most-important-documen_211118.png) > [...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-foolish-persons-wanderers-from-other-parts-have-the-vain-fashion/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/680/mark-twain-22_doers_many-foolish-persons-wanderers-from-othe_2239046.jpg) > [The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-conviction-of-the-rich-that-the-poor-are-happier-is-no-more/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/897/mark-twain-22_conviction_the-conviction-of-the-rich-that-the-poor_579415.png) > [There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-no-god-no-universe-no-human-race-no-earthly-life-no-heaven/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce3/mark-twain-22_dream_there-is-no-god-no-universe-no-human-rac_273539.png) > [I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-believe-that-our-heavenly-father-invented-man-because-he-was/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f49/mark-twain-22_believe_i-believe-that-our-heavenly-father-inven_469596.png) > [Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/man-is-the-reasoning-animal-such-is-the-claim-i-think-it-is-open-to-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a0/mark-twain-22_able_man-is-the-reasoning-animal-such-is-the_829659.png) ## Other authors on Foolish ## 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/foolish/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "10 Foolish Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“People always more and more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": 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