--- title: "7 Forgotten Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "7 Forgotten quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Forgotten sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png" --- > [Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck-because-if-you-don-t-want-it/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png) > [Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/schoolboy-days-are-no-happier-than-the-days-of-afterlife-but-we-look/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e5/mark-twain-22_afterlife_schoolboy-days-are-no-happier-than-the-d_665695.png) > [There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-in-life-only-one-moment-and-in-eternity-only-one-it-is-so/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00e/mark-twain-22_billions_there-is-in-life-only-one-moment-and-in_2301419.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) > [The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-choir-always-tittered-and-whispered-all-through-the-service-there/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f19/mark-twain-22_atheism_the-choir-always-tittered-and-whispered_2550412.png) > [So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/so-far-as-i-am-able-to-judge-nothing-has-been-left-undone-either-by/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/mark-twain-22_able_so-far-as-i-am-able-to-judge-nothing-has_2639331.jpg) > [The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-xmas-holidays-have-this-high-value-that-they-remind-forgetters-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f38/mark-twain-22_christmas_the-xmas-holidays-have-this-high-value-t_2924727.png) ## Other authors on Forgotten ## 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/forgotten/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "7 Forgotten Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck-because-if-you-don-t-want-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/mark-twain-22_chance_steal-a-chicken-if-you-get-a-chance-huck_72646.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/schoolboy-days-are-no-happier-than-the-days-of-afterlife-but-we-look/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e5/mark-twain-22_afterlife_schoolboy-days-are-no-happier-than-the-d_665695.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e5/mark-twain-22_afterlife_schoolboy-days-are-no-happier-than-the-d_665695.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e5/mark-twain-22_afterlife_schoolboy-days-are-no-happier-than-the-d_665695.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we…” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. 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