Quote

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

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
Easy
Complained
Able
Toads
Find
Prehistoric
Many
Disposition
Men
Coal
Fault
Faults
Animal

More quotes by 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’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.
Mark Twain
Image
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
Mark Twain
Image
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
Mark Twain
Image
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Image
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!
Mark Twain
Image
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.
Mark Twain
Image
The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Mark Twain
Image
A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
Mark Twain
Image
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
Mark Twain
Image
Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor
Mark Twain
Image
It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.
Mark Twain
Image
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
Image
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
Mark Twain
Image
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.
Mark Twain
Image
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
Mark Twain
Image
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
Image
If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people
Mark Twain
Image
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
Image
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
Mark Twain