Quote

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

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
Two
Nothing
People
Interrupting
Hilarious
Annoying
Busy
Talking
Funny

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain
Image
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
Mark Twain
Image
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.
Mark Twain
Image
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
Mark Twain
Image
My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
Image
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
Mark Twain
Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
Mark Twain
Image
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Mark Twain
Image
The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.
Mark Twain
Image
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
Mark Twain
Image
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
Mark Twain
Image
I admire him, I frankly confess it and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
Mark Twain
Image
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
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
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
Image
If one is honest there is no need to remember.
Mark Twain
Image
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain
Image
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.
Mark Twain
Image
The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.
Mark Twain
Image
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
Mark Twain