--- title: "20 Mouths Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "20 Mouths quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Mouths sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/812/mark-twain-22_communication_if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-liste_213043.png" --- > [If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-listen-we-would-have-two-mouths/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/812/mark-twain-22_communication_if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-liste_213043.png) > [Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/slang-in-a-woman-s-mouth-is-not-obscene-it-only-sounds-so/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/mark-twain-22_mouths_slang-in-a-woman-s-mouth-is-not-obscene_546768.png) > [Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/tis-better-to-sit-there-and-look-the-fool-than-to-open-your-mouth-and/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/mark-twain-22_fool_tis-better-to-sit-there-and-look-the-foo_1699565.png) > [An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/an-uneasy-conscience-is-a-hair-in-the-mouth/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/mark-twain-22_conscience_an-uneasy-conscience-is-a-hair-in-the-mo_939107.png) > [A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-can-be-a-christian-or-a-patriot-but-he-can-t-legally-be-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2e/mark-twain-22_christian_a-man-can-be-a-christian-or-a-patriot-bu_2101552.png) > [Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/whenever-we-come-upon-one-of-those-intensely-right-words-in-a-book-or/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/mark-twain-22_autumn_whenever-we-come-upon-one-of-those-inten_890742.png) > [whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/whenever-the-literary-german-dives-into-a-sentence-this-is-the-last/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfb/mark-twain-22_lasts_whenever-the-literary-german-dives-into_3181250.png) > [We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-adore-titles-and-heredities-in-our-hearts-and-ridicule-them-with/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/186/mark-twain-22_adore_we-adore-titles-and-heredities-in-our-he_2380108.png) > [If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-the-bubble-reputation-can-be-obtained-only-at-the-cannon-s-mouth-i-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acd/mark-twain-22_bubbles_if-the-bubble-reputation-can-be-obtained_1568872.png) > [Writing is the easiest thing in the world… Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/writing-is-the-easiest-thing-in-the-world-just-try-it-sometime-i-sit/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78f/mark-twain-22_boards_writing-is-the-easiest-thing-in-the-worl_1021186.png) > [All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/all-say-how-hard-it-is-that-we-have-to-die-a-strange-complaint-to/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd8/mark-twain-22_complaints_all-say-how-hard-it-is-that-we-have-to-d_686995.png) > [There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-s-plenty-of-boys-that-will-come-hankering-and-gruvvelling/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c32/mark-twain-22_apples_there-s-plenty-of-boys-that-will-come-ha_2885359.png) > [Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/suddenly-the-nickel-clad-horse-takes-the-bit-in-its-mouth-and-goes/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/mark-twain-22_bicycle_suddenly-the-nickel-clad-horse-takes-the_241782.jpg) > [I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-bring-you-this-stately-matron-named-christendom-returning/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08d/mark-twain-22_christendom_i-bring-you-this-stately-matron-named-ch_2187450.jpg) > [Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/man-is-the-only-animal-that-deals-in-that-atrocity-of-atrocities-war/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2a/mark-twain-22_animal_man-is-the-only-animal-that-deals-in-tha_86559.png) > [Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/man-is-the-only-patriot-he-sets-himself-apart-in-his-own-country/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/107/mark-twain-22_assassins_man-is-the-only-patriot-he-sets-himself_808338.png) > [there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-was-no-crime-in-unconscious-plagiarism-that-i-committed-it/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbc/mark-twain-22_alive_there-was-no-crime-in-unconscious-plagia_1598113.jpg) > [If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-the-bubble-reputation-can-be-obtained-only-at-the-cannon-s-mouth-i/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f6/mark-twain-22_bubbles_if-the-bubble-reputation-can-be-obtained_1200465.jpg) > [Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/beautiful-credit-the-foundation-of-modern-society-who-shall-say-that/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/mark-twain-22_age_beautiful-credit-the-foundation-of-moder_1715789.jpg) > [Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/strange-a-god-who-mouths-golden-rules-and-forgiveness-then-invented/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/mark-twain-22_anti-god_strange-a-god-who-mouths-golden-rules-an_2900831.jpg) ## Other authors on Mouths ## 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/mouths/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "20 Mouths Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-listen-we-would-have-two-mouths/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/812/mark-twain-22_communication_if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-liste_213043.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/812/mark-twain-22_communication_if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-liste_213043.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/812/mark-twain-22_communication_if-we-were-meant-to-talk-more-than-liste_213043.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/slang-in-a-woman-s-mouth-is-not-obscene-it-only-sounds-so/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/mark-twain-22_mouths_slang-in-a-woman-s-mouth-is-not-obscene_546768.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/mark-twain-22_mouths_slang-in-a-woman-s-mouth-is-not-obscene_546768.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/mark-twain-22_mouths_slang-in-a-woman-s-mouth-is-not-obscene_546768.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/tis-better-to-sit-there-and-look-the-fool-than-to-open-your-mouth-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/mark-twain-22_fool_tis-better-to-sit-there-and-look-the-foo_1699565.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/mark-twain-22_fool_tis-better-to-sit-there-and-look-the-foo_1699565.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/mark-twain-22_fool_tis-better-to-sit-there-and-look-the-foo_1699565.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/an-uneasy-conscience-is-a-hair-in-the-mouth/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/mark-twain-22_conscience_an-uneasy-conscience-is-a-hair-in-the-mo_939107.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/mark-twain-22_conscience_an-uneasy-conscience-is-a-hair-in-the-mo_939107.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e1/mark-twain-22_conscience_an-uneasy-conscience-is-a-hair-in-the-mo_939107.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - 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