Quote

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

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Interesting
Comes
Tell
Children
Sweet
Teaching
Information
Stop
Literature

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
Mark Twain
Image
It's so damned humiliating.
Mark Twain
Image
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
Mark Twain
Image
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Mark Twain
Image
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
Mark Twain
Image
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
Image
It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
Mark Twain
Image
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
Mark Twain
Image
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
Mark Twain
Image
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Mark Twain
Image
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Image
God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.
Mark Twain
Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Mark Twain
Image
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
Mark Twain
Image
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
Mark Twain
Image
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.
Mark Twain
Image
What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?
Mark Twain
Image
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
Mark Twain
Image
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
Mark Twain
Image
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain