Quote

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

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
Resolution
Dialogue
Communication
Nothing

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.
Mark Twain
Image
My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
Image
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
Image
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
Mark Twain
Image
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
Mark Twain
Image
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
Mark Twain
Image
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Mark Twain
Image
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Mark Twain
Image
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
Mark Twain
Image
Music is a good thing and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
Mark Twain
Image
Homely truth is unpalatable.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
Mark Twain
Image
The truth hurts, but silence kills.
Mark Twain
Image
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
Mark Twain
Image
Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.
Mark Twain
Image
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
Mark Twain
Image
The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
Mark Twain
Image
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
Mark Twain
Image
Always tell the truth then you don't have to remember anything
Mark Twain
Image
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.
Mark Twain