Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Commitment
None
Promise
Broken
Inspiration
Better
More quotes by Mark Twain
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
Mark Twain
Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.
Mark Twain
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.
Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
Mark Twain
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
Mark Twain
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
Mark Twain
Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
Mark Twain
We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.
Mark Twain
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
Mark Twain
When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.
Mark Twain
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Mark Twain
A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.
Mark Twain
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
Mark Twain
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
Mark Twain
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes my dear, and my love come from the heart but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
Mark Twain
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
Mark Twain
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
Mark Twain
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Mark Twain
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain