Mark Twain

Mark Twain: All say, `How...

Mark Twain: All say, `How...

All say, `How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: After a few...

Mark Twain: After a few...

After a few months' acquaintance with European coffee, one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Denial ain't just...

Mark Twain: Denial ain't just...

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Are you going...

Mark Twain: Are you going...

Are you going to hang him anyhow - and try him afterward?

Source: Innocents at...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: All kings is...

Mark Twain: All kings is...

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ch....

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: All scenery in...

Mark Twain: All scenery in...

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: At bottom he...

Mark Twain: At bottom he...

At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Each person is...

Mark Twain: Each person is...

Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others -- his last breath.

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: By law of...

Mark Twain: By law of...

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: All say, 'How...

Mark Twain: All say, 'How...

All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years --...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Barring that natural...

Mark Twain: Barring that natural...

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Source:
-- Mark...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Civilization is a...

Mark Twain: Civilization is a...

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Source:...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Both marriage and...

Mark Twain: Both marriage and...

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Biographies are but...

Mark Twain: Biographies are but...

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Be good and...

Mark Twain: Be good and...

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Source: Following the Equator, caption for...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Fortune knocks at...

Mark Twain: Fortune knocks at...

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: Damn the subjunctive....

Mark Twain: Damn the subjunctive....

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Source: In The Ultimate...

More about this quote...

Mark Twain: By common consent...

Mark Twain: By common consent...

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men,...

More about this quote...

Page 8 of 48


(C)2024 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA