The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain Quotes

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I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, “Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud.�...

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain