Quote

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

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
Truth
Much
Every
Trifling
Occasion
Drag
Occasions
Respect

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
Mark Twain
Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
Mark Twain
Image
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.
Mark Twain
Image
Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise
Mark Twain
Image
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
Mark Twain
Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the tellingthe comic and the witty story upon the matter.
Mark Twain
Image
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
Mark Twain
Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Mark Twain
Image
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Mark Twain
Image
All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.
Mark Twain
Image
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain
Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
Mark Twain
Image
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.
Mark Twain
Image
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Image
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Mark Twain
Image
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
Mark Twain
Image
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
Mark Twain
Image
The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Mark Twain
Image
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first! Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain