Quote

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

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
Cooking
Angel
Inspiration
Food
Watermelon
Tasted
Culinary
Angels

More quotes by 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
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Mark Twain
Image
There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
Mark Twain
Image
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
Mark Twain
Image
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
Mark Twain
Image
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
Mark Twain
Image
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain
Image
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
Mark Twain
Image
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Mark Twain
Image
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.
Mark Twain
Image
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
Mark Twain
Image
To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.
Mark Twain
Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
Mark Twain
Image
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Mark Twain
Image
Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.
Mark Twain
Image
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
Mark Twain
Image
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark Twain
Image
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
Mark Twain
Image
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Mark Twain
Image
Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
Mark Twain