--- title: "19 Left Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "19 Left quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Left sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d9/mark-twain-22_book_a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is_3179913.png" --- > [A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is-in-it-but-what-is-left-out/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d9/mark-twain-22_book_a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is_3179913.png) > [Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/nothing-is-so-ignorant-as-a-man-s-left-hand-except-a-lady-s-watch/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa7/mark-twain-22_hands_nothing-is-so-ignorant-as-a-man-s-left-h_2578343.png) > [Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/of-the-delights-of-this-world-man-cares-most-for-sexual-intercourse-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/mark-twain-22_care_of-the-delights-of-this-world-man-cares_567222.png) > [Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/stripping-away-the-irrational-the-illogical-and-the-impossible-i-am/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da4/mark-twain-22_atheism_stripping-away-the-irrational-the-illogi_2679672.png) > [God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/god-was-left-out-of-the-constitution-but-was-furnished-a-front-seat/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/mark-twain-22_coins_god-was-left-out-of-the-constitution-but_261069.png) > [The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-old-irish-when-immersing-a-babe-at-baptism-left-out-the-right-arm/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d41/mark-twain-22_arms_the-old-irish-when-immersing-a-babe-at-b_1607204.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) > [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) > [God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/god-was-left-out-of-the-constitution-but-was-furnished-a-front-seat-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/mark-twain-22_constitution_god-was-left-out-of-the-constitution-but_1213819.png) > [I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-do-see-that-there-is-an-argument-against-suicide-the-grief-of-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b2/mark-twain-22_argument_i-do-see-that-there-is-an-argument-again_930988.png) > [He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/he-wa-n-t-no-common-dog-he-wa-n-t-no-mongrel-he-was-a-composite-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/604/mark-twain-22_animal_he-wa-n-t-no-common-dog-he-wa-n-t-no-mon_2804605.png) > [There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-was-a-great-difference-in-boats-of-course-for-a-long-time-i-was/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f9/mark-twain-22_boat_there-was-a-great-difference-in-boats-of_2243378.jpg) > [July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/july-4-statistics-show-that-we-lose-more-fools-on-this-day-than-in/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/416/mark-twain-22_4th-of-july_july-4-statistics-show-that-we-lose-more_1760156.png) > [Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/well-my-book-is-written-let-it-go-but-if-it-were-only-to-write-over/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cc/mark-twain-22_book_well-my-book-is-written-let-it-go-but-if_1857140.png) > [Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/would-it-not-be-prudent-to-get-our-civilization-tools-together-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/mark-twain-22_balance_would-it-not-be-prudent-to-get-our-civil_2674141.png) > [The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-spirit-of-christianity-proclaims-the-brotherhood-of-the-race-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d26/mark-twain-22_another-way_the-spirit-of-christianity-proclaims-the_77267.png) > [When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/when-grown-up-persons-indulge-in-practical-jokes-the-fact-gauges-them/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/mark-twain-22_boyhood_when-grown-up-persons-indulge-in-practic_1891480.png) > [Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/where-was-the-use-originally-in-rushing-this-whole-globe-through-in/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/mark-twain-22_brooms_where-was-the-use-originally-in-rushing_1591794.png) > [Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/pilgrim-s-progress-about-a-man-that-left-his-family-it-didn-t-say-why/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e2/mark-twain-22_family_pilgrim-s-progress-about-a-man-that-left_2828988.jpg) ## Other authors on Left ## 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/left/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "19 Left Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is-in-it-but-what-is-left-out/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d9/mark-twain-22_book_a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is_3179913.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d9/mark-twain-22_book_a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is_3179913.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d9/mark-twain-22_book_a-successful-book-is-not-made-of-what-is_3179913.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/nothing-is-so-ignorant-as-a-man-s-left-hand-except-a-lady-s-watch/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa7/mark-twain-22_hands_nothing-is-so-ignorant-as-a-man-s-left-h_2578343.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa7/mark-twain-22_hands_nothing-is-so-ignorant-as-a-man-s-left-h_2578343.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa7/mark-twain-22_hands_nothing-is-so-ignorant-as-a-man-s-left-h_2578343.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/of-the-delights-of-this-world-man-cares-most-for-sexual-intercourse-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/mark-twain-22_care_of-the-delights-of-this-world-man-cares_567222.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/mark-twain-22_care_of-the-delights-of-this-world-man-cares_567222.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ceb/mark-twain-22_care_of-the-delights-of-this-world-man-cares_567222.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. 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