Quote

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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
Except
Longer
Hell
Vague
Seen
Charm
Heaven
Foreign
Country
Curiosity
Countries
Travel

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
Mark Twain
Image
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
Mark Twain
Image
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
Mark Twain
Image
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
Mark Twain
Image
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
Image
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
Image
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.
Mark Twain
Image
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Mark Twain
Image
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Mark Twain
Image
There is only one good sex. The female one.
Mark Twain
Image
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
Mark Twain
Image
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Mark Twain
Image
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain
Image
Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
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
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. (In God we Trust) is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
Mark Twain
Image
Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.
Mark Twain
Image
the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.
Mark Twain
Image
Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
Mark Twain