“Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.” – A Small Collection of Well-Known Quotes by American Author Mark Twain
Mark Twain is perhaps the most famous US novelist (Australia Mark Twain Books). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835. He died April 1910 at the age of 74.
Mark Twain is most well-known for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).
Twain was a gifted writer and is still often quoted in print and in speeches. We have arranged here some of his more famous quotations for your enjoyment.
The Famous Mark Twain Quotations (more):
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth – he could not even lie.
Carlyle said, “A lie cannot live”; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment– but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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