Quote

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

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
Pigs
Indispensable
Dirty
Likes
Wrestle

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain
Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
Mark Twain
Image
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
Mark Twain
Image
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Mark Twain
Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
Mark Twain
Image
The Bible is a wonderful book you can prove anything you want with it.
Mark Twain
Image
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Mark Twain
Image
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
Mark Twain
Image
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.
Mark Twain
Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Mark Twain
Image
Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
Mark Twain
Image
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
Mark Twain
Image
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake he wanted it because it was forbidden.
Mark Twain
Image
Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
Mark Twain
Image
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
Mark Twain
Image
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.
Mark Twain
Image
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
Mark Twain
Image
History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.
Mark Twain
Image
If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.
Mark Twain
Image
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
Mark Twain