Quote

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

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
Ignorant
Fail
Luck
Succeed
Failing
Undeservedly
Strange
Inexperienced
Often
Informed
Way
Experienced

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
Mark Twain
Image
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
Mark Twain
Image
Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
Mark Twain
Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.
Mark Twain
Image
I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.
Mark Twain
Image
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.
Mark Twain
Image
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
Image
My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.
Mark Twain
Image
The humorous story is told gravely the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
Mark Twain
Image
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.
Mark Twain
Image
I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.
Mark Twain
Image
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain
Image
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
Mark Twain
Image
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
Mark Twain
Image
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
Mark Twain
Image
Man is a marvelous curiosity...he thinks he is the Creator's pet...he even believes the Creator loves him has passion for him sits up nights to admire him yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks he listens. Isn't it a quaint idea.
Mark Twain
Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
Mark Twain
Image
What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.
Mark Twain
Image
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
Mark Twain