--- title: "17 Perfect Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "17 Perfect quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Perfect sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/mark-twain-22_adversaries_the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-op_1290631.png" --- > [The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-opinion-our-adversaries-are/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/mark-twain-22_adversaries_the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-op_1290631.png) > [No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/no-one-can-write-perfect-english-and-keep-it-up-through-a-stretch-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b1/mark-twain-22_chapters_no-one-can-write-perfect-english-and-kee_352590.png) > [Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/perfect-grammar-persistent-continuous-sustained-is-the-fourth/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59c/mark-twain-22_dimensions_perfect-grammar-persistent-continuous-su_981243.png) > [An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/an-enemy-can-partly-ruin-a-man-but-it-takes-a-good-natured/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/mark-twain-22_enemy_an-enemy-can-partly-ruin-a-man-but-it-ta_404231.png) > [By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/by-his-father-he-is-english-by-his-mother-he-is-americanto-my-mind/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/115/mark-twain-22_father_by-his-father-he-is-english-by-his-mothe_411424.png) > [A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-home-without-a-cat-and-a-well-fed-well-petted-and-properly-revered/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a1/mark-twain-22_cat_a-home-without-a-cat-and-a-well-fed-well_3222372.png) > [There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-will-never-be-a-perfect-time-to-quit-smoking-a-time-when-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/mark-twain-22_another-year_there-will-never-be-a-perfect-time-to-qu_2068669.png) > [You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-cannot-have-all-chiefs-you-gotta-have-indians-too-perfect-love/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46c/mark-twain-22_chiefs_you-cannot-have-all-chiefs-you-gotta-hav_3021268.png) > [Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/love-seems-the-swiftest-but-it-is-the-slowest-of-all-growths-no-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa5/mark-twain-22_century_love-seems-the-swiftest-but-it-is-the-sl_235204.png) > [We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-are-always-hearing-of-people-who-are-around-seeking-after-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/mark-twain-22_doubt_we-are-always-hearing-of-people-who-are_1740826.jpg) > [ ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that \[every\] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/we-all-know-that-in-all-matters-of-mere-opinion-that-every-man-is/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/mark-twain-22_adversaries_we-all-know-that-in-all-matters-of-mere_2773253.png) > [The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-business-aspects-of-the-fourth-of-july-is-not-perfect-as-it/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/mark-twain-22_4th-of-july_the-business-aspects-of-the-fourth-of-ju_2764913.png) > [There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-no-character-howsoever-good-and-fine-but-it-can-be-destroyed/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cd/mark-twain-22_animal_there-is-no-character-howsoever-good-and_887693.png) > [As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-by-the-fires-of-experience-so-by-commission-of-crime-you-learn/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/mark-twain-22_character_as-by-the-fires-of-experience-so-by-comm_3197047.png) > [Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/even-the-clearest-and-most-perfect-circumstantial-evidence-is-likely/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/mark-twain-22_aspect_even-the-clearest-and-most-perfect-circu_790166.png) > [I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-love-to-revel-in-philosophical-matters-especially-astronomy-i-study/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d82/mark-twain-22_astronomy_i-love-to-revel-in-philosophical-matters_2534717.png) > [Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-of-the-cemeteries-are-beautiful-and-are-kept-in-perfect-order/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee3/mark-twain-22_admiration_many-of-the-cemeteries-are-beautiful-and_496179.png) ## Other authors on Perfect ## 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/perfect/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "17 Perfect Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Twain" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-opinion-our-adversaries-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/mark-twain-22_adversaries_the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-op_1290631.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/mark-twain-22_adversaries_the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-op_1290631.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/mark-twain-22_adversaries_the-rule-is-perfect-in-all-matters-of-op_1290631.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.” — Mark Twain", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. 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Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. 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