--- title: "19 Gone Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "19 Gone quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Gone sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/mark-twain-22_gone_what-s-gone-with-that-boy-i-wonder-you-t_520493.png" --- > [“What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? You TOM!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/what-s-gone-with-that-boy-i-wonder-you-tom/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ba/mark-twain-22_gone_what-s-gone-with-that-boy-i-wonder-you-t_520493.png) > [A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-friend-is-someone-who-stays-in-when-the-rest-of-the-world-has-gone/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/mark-twain-22_flower_a-friend-is-someone-who-stays-in-when-th_1515234.png) > [ More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the \[biblical\] texts that authorised them remain. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/more-than-two-hundred-death-penalties-are-gone-from-the-law-books-but/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/mark-twain-22_bible_more-than-two-hundred-death-penalties-ar_2288236.png) > [I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-do-love-compliments-yet-i-m-often-embarrassed-to-say-what-i-think/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/719/mark-twain-22_compliment_i-do-love-compliments-yet-i-m-often-emba_1809771.png) > [Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/eight-grown-americans-out-of-ten-dread-the-coming-of-the-fourth-with/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c96/mark-twain-22_4th-of-july_eight-grown-americans-out-of-ten-dread-t_2406737.png) > [Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/gratitude-and-treachery-are-merely-the-two-extremities-of-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/984/mark-twain-22_band_gratitude-and-treachery-are-merely-the-t_2753364.png) > [When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/when-i-reflect-upon-the-number-of-disagreeable-people-who-i-know-have/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/mark-twain-22_belief_when-i-reflect-upon-the-number-of-disagr_2675538.png) > [There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-queen-s-english-the-property-has-gone/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f1/mark-twain-22_business_there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-queen-s-en_3125358.png) > [Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/yes-always-avoid-violence-in-this-age-of-charity-and-kindliness-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f97/mark-twain-22_age_yes-always-avoid-violence-in-this-age-of_1981351.png) > [Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/yesterday-everybody-smoked-his-last-cigar-took-his-last-drink-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/mark-twain-22_ancient_yesterday-everybody-smoked-his-last-ciga_1138766.png) > [I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-have-witnessed-and-greatly-enjoyed-the-first-act-of-everything/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0f/mark-twain-22_effects_i-have-witnessed-and-greatly-enjoyed-the_1380844.png) > [There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-are-no-witches-the-witch-text-remains-only-the-practice-has/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/579/mark-twain-22_book_there-are-no-witches-the-witch-text-rema_792388.jpg) > [Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/don-t-part-with-your-illusions-when-they-are-gone-you-may-still-exist/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49b/mark-twain-22_creating_don-t-part-with-your-illusions-when-they_2108365.png) > [I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-have-done-more-for-san-francisco-than-any-of-its-old-residents/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/261/mark-twain-22_done_i-have-done-more-for-san-francisco-than_2098023.png) > [Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/alas-those-good-old-days-are-gone-when-a-murderer-could-wipe-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e9/mark-twain-22_alas_alas-those-good-old-days-are-gone-when-a_1927734.png) > [There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-are-people-who-strictly-deprive-themselves-of-each-and-every/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f30/mark-twain-22_cows_there-are-people-who-strictly-deprive-th_389870.jpg) > [The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-motto-stated-a-lie-if-this-nation-has-ever-trusted-in-god-that/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/723/mark-twain-22_am-sorry_the-motto-stated-a-lie-if-this-nation-ha_3229086.png) > [As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-soon-as-a-man-recognizes-that-he-has-drifted-into-age-he-gets/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/mark-twain-22_age_as-soon-as-a-man-recognizes-that-he-has_2448920.jpg) > [Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/now-when-i-had-mastered-the-language-of-this-water-and-had-come-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/553/mark-twain-22_acquisition_now-when-i-had-mastered-the-language-of_317593.jpg) ## Other authors on Gone ## 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/gone/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "19 Gone Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What's gone with that boy,  I wonder? 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