Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
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
Book
Plagiarism
Thing
Originality
Good
Adam
Beer
Drink
Nobody
Knew
Wisdom
More quotes by Mark Twain
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
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Mark Twain
There are many humorous things in the world among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Mark Twain
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.
Mark Twain
...heaven for climate, and hell for society.
Mark Twain
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.
Mark Twain
You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.
Mark Twain
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.
Mark Twain
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.
Mark Twain
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
Mark Twain
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.
Mark Twain
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
Mark Twain
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
Mark Twain
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Mark Twain
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water but everybody likes water.
Mark Twain
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
Mark Twain
When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
Mark Twain
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
Mark Twain
