Quote

We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.

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
Write
Writing
Modify
Frankly
Censorship
Freely
Print

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Mark Twain
Image
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
Mark Twain
Image
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Image
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
Mark Twain
Image
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
Mark Twain
Image
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
Mark Twain
Image
He had only one vanity he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
Mark Twain
Image
There are many humorous things in the world among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Mark Twain
Image
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
Image
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.
Mark Twain
Image
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.
Mark Twain
Image
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
Mark Twain
Image
A habit cannot be tossed out the window it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain
Image
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
Mark Twain
Image
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
Mark Twain
Image
Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
Mark Twain
Image
The solution to our water problems is more rain.
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
Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.
Mark Twain
Image
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
Mark Twain