Home » Mark Twain Mark Twain Mark Twain American - writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer 1 Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain Truth, Possibilities, Stick Add to Collection 2 I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. Mark Twain Know, Said, Answer Add to Collection 3 It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Mark Twain Man, Animal, Dumb Add to Collection 4 A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. Mark Twain Time, Man, Right Add to Collection 5 Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain Joy, Humor, Heaven Add to Collection 6 To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. Mark Twain Good, Trouble, Others Add to Collection 7 Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Mark Twain Book, Own, Discover Add to Collection 8 What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. Mark Twain Woman, Earth, People Add to Collection 9 Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so. Mark Twain Truth, Truth Is, Nothing Add to Collection 10 It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. Mark Twain America, Find, Wonderful Add to Collection 11 How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before. Mark Twain Good, Lucky, Said Add to Collection 12 Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Mark Twain Work, Body, Play Add to Collection 13 What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. Mark Twain Tax, Difference, Skin Add to Collection 14 The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. Mark Twain Perfect, Matters, Opinion Add to Collection 15 I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.' Mark Twain Life, Together, My Life Add to Collection 16 Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. Mark Twain Fight, People, Never Add to Collection 17 Buy land, they're not making it anymore. Mark Twain Land, Anymore, Buy Add to Collection 18 It is easier to stay out than get out. Mark Twain Easier, Stay, Out Add to Collection 19 Necessity is the mother of taking chances. Mark Twain Mother, Chance, Chances Add to Collection 20 Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain Life, Success, Food Add to Collection 21 Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. Mark Twain Hope, Health, Age Add to Collection 22 It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. Mark Twain Lie, Better, Belong Add to Collection 23 The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain Pause, May, Right Add to Collection 24 Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. Mark Twain Marriage, Ideas, Union Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 next › last »
