Quotes by Mark Twain

About Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
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She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

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We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

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'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

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Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

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Author Bio

  • NameMark Twain
  • DescriptionAmerican author and humorist
  • AliasesSamuel Langhorne Clemens; Samuel Clemens
  • BornNovember 30, 1835
  • DiedApril 21, 1910
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Humorist; Novelist; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksAdventures Of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer