Quote

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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
Insolent
Insolence
Surest
Prosperity
Inspiration
Breeder
Breeders

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Mark Twain
Image
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
Mark Twain
Image
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Mark Twain
Image
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
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
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
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
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
Mark Twain
Image
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
Mark Twain
Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
Image
... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.
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
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
Image
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
Mark Twain
Image
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
Mark Twain
Image
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography.
Mark Twain
Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.
Mark Twain
Image
I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.
Mark Twain
Image
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do
Mark Twain
Image
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
Mark Twain