Quote

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. Give them to others-that's my motto.

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
Moral
Though
Morals
Rather
Motto
Others
Wouldn
Give
Opinion
Giving
Teach
Every
Asks
Like
Practice

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Mark Twain
Image
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
Mark Twain
Image
I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.
Mark Twain
Image
You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
Mark Twain
Image
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Image
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain
Image
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
Mark Twain
Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Mark Twain
Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.
Mark Twain
Image
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!
Mark Twain
Image
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain
Image
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
Mark Twain
Image
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
Mark Twain
Image
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
Mark Twain
Image
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Mark Twain
Image
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
Mark Twain
Image
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
Mark Twain
Image
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words it feels like music.
Mark Twain
Image
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.
Mark Twain
Image
When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.
Mark Twain