Trying Quotes by Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

— Mark Twain

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

— Mark Twain

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

— Mark Twain

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

— Mark Twain

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

— Mark Twain

…try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

— Mark Twain

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

— Mark Twain

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will…

— Mark Twain

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it,…

— Mark Twain

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked…

— Mark Twain

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I…

— Mark Twain

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just…

— Mark Twain

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the…

— Mark Twain

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to…

— Mark Twain

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of…

— Mark Twain

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part…

— 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

I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because…

— Mark Twain

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man…

— Mark Twain

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a…

— Mark Twain

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we…

— Mark Twain

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself;…

— Mark Twain

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make…

— Mark Twain

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of…

— Mark Twain

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of…

— Mark Twain

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking…

— Mark Twain

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged…

— Mark Twain

Writing is the easiest thing in the world… Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and…

— Mark Twain

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a…

— Mark Twain

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if…

— Mark Twain

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That…

— Mark Twain

More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of…

— Mark Twain

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to…

— Mark Twain

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

— Mark Twain

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest…

— Mark Twain

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present…

— Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel…

— Mark Twain