All Mark Twain Quotes
- Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women. Arguing
- None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth. Dead
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have… All
- In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. Ago
- Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment. Bad
- There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away… Acre
- The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for… Announcement
- The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise... Engineering
- Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit. Care
- No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful. Beautiful
- I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent. Accent
- We can achieve what we can conceive and believe. Achieve
- College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. Brain
- Books are the liberated spirits of men. Book
- Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as… All
- Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience. Age
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more… Already Tried
- The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say. Begins
- I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened. Funny
- The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried. Difference
- Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together! All
- The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. Divided
- Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. Build
- Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men. Blind
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. Average