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A Collection of Legendary Quotes by American Writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain is one of the most well-known American novelists. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was born in November 1835. Twain died April 1910 in Redding, Connecticut.
Twain is most celebrated for his books “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.
Twain was a talented writer and is often quoted in print and in speeches. We have arranged a collection of his more famous quotations for your reading pleasure.
And Now The Famous Mark Twain Quotes
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment– but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
He would come in and say he changed his mind — which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn’t have any.
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be–a christian.
I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
Mark Twain in Print: Tom Sawyer Australia
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” OVERVIEW — Mark Twain’s “Huck Finn” … from 60second Recap®
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