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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Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

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He had had much experience of physicians, and said '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'.

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Names are not always what they seem.

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No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize ...

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A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man.

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If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

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Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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Age quotes by Mark Twain, UberQuotes

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

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Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes-- and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits; and all the while, their masters, and they themselves a...

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Human nature is all alike.

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People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

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The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

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I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; I was always tired.

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I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to d...

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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