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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Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

Mark Twain

Never argue with stupid people; they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

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Of course truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

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To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

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Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.

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This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

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A dog is der Hund the dog; a women is die Frau the wom[an]; a horse is das Pferd, the horse; now you put that dog in the Genitive case, & is he the same dog he was before? No sir; he is das Hundes; put him in the Dative case & what is he? Why, he is ...

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The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them." [ , February 22, 1894]

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Mark Twain

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