Quote

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

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
Deeper
Marriage
Comes
Also
Surer
Love
Concede
Life
Felicity
Supreme
Tragedy

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
Mark Twain
Image
To forget pain is to be painless to forget care is to be rid of it to go abroad is to accomplish both.
Mark Twain
Image
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
Mark Twain
Image
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Image
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
Mark Twain
Image
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
Mark Twain
Image
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Mark Twain
Image
Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
Mark Twain
Image
There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
Mark Twain
Image
There is only one good sex. The female one.
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
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
Mark Twain
Image
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
Mark Twain
Image
Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.
Mark Twain
Image
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish
Mark Twain
Image
Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
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
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
Mark Twain
Image
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
Mark Twain
Image
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
Mark Twain