Stills Quotes by Mark Twain

How slow and still the time did drag along.

— Mark Twain

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

— Mark Twain

To stand still is to fall behind.

— Mark Twain

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get…

— Mark Twain

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

— Mark Twain

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

— Mark Twain

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

— Mark Twain

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

— Mark Twain

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it…

— Mark Twain

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not…

— Mark Twain

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand…

— Mark Twain

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still…

— Mark Twain

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if…

— Mark Twain

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an…

— Mark Twain

Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the…

— Mark Twain

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your…

— Mark Twain

It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and…

— Mark Twain

We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn,…

— Mark Twain

That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the…

— Mark Twain

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away)…

— Mark Twain

Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first…

— Mark Twain

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;…

— Mark Twain

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full…

— Mark Twain

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand…

— Mark Twain

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of…

— Mark Twain

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when…

— Mark Twain

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly,…

— Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a…

— Mark Twain

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with…

— Mark Twain

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in…

— Mark Twain