Quote

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

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
Knew
Persons
Person
Never
Prejudiced
Ignorant
Ignorance

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
Mark Twain
Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
Mark Twain
Image
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.
Mark Twain
Image
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.
Mark Twain
Image
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
Mark Twain
Image
Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.
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
Image
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
Mark Twain
Image
Which is him? The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
Mark Twain
Image
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
Mark Twain
Image
College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
Mark Twain
Image
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
Mark Twain
Image
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
Mark Twain
Image
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
Mark Twain
Image
I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
Mark Twain
Image
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
Mark Twain
Image
To stand still is to fall behind.
Mark Twain
Image
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.
Mark Twain
Image
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.
Mark Twain
Image
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain