Quote

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

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
Clearly
Older
Happened
Age
Remember
Things
Never
Aging

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Tough times teach trust.
Mark Twain
Image
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
Mark Twain
Image
I like criticism, but it must be my way.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
Mark Twain
Image
Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.
Mark Twain
Image
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
Image
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.
Mark Twain
Image
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
Mark Twain
Image
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
Mark Twain
Image
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
Mark Twain
Image
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
Mark Twain
Image
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete that 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
Image
The humorous story is told gravely the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
Mark Twain
Image
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
Mark Twain
Image
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Image
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
Mark Twain
Image
Some things you can't find out but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.
Mark Twain
Image
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
Image
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
Mark Twain
Image
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
Mark Twain