Quote

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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
Meaning
Learn
Inspirational
Take
Scriptural
Must
Possessed
Every
Phrases
Never
Significance
Travel

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Image
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
Mark Twain
Image
Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.
Mark Twain
Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
Mark Twain
Image
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
Image
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain
Image
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain
Image
We are all alike, on the inside.
Mark Twain
Image
My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
Image
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries it is only when we set out to discover the secret of God that our difficulties disappear.
Mark Twain
Image
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Mark Twain
Image
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Mark Twain
Image
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain
Image
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
Image
None but the dead have free speech.
Mark Twain
Image
All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.
Mark Twain
Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
Mark Twain
Image
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.
Mark Twain
Image
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
Mark Twain
Image
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