“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don’t know.” – Quotations by Famous American Author Mark Twain
Mark Twain is perhaps the most famous American writer (Twain Books). Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in Missouri on November 30, 1835. Samuel Clemens died in 1910 at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut.
Twain is perhaps most famous 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 a collection of his most famous quotations for your reading pleasure.
And Now The Mark Twain Quotations (source)
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth – he could not even lie.
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
Quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it hundreds of times.
A man with a new idea is a crank — until the idea succeeds.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
He would come in and say he changed his mind — which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn’t have any.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Everything has its limit–iron ore cannot be educated into gold. – 1906
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
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