Quote

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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
Takes
Lost
Find
Long
Time
Temper
Dog
Lose
Loses

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
Mark Twain
Image
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain
Image
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake he wanted it because it was forbidden.
Mark Twain
Image
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
Mark Twain
Image
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain
Image
The proverb says, Born lucky, always lucky, and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
Mark Twain
Image
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.
Mark Twain
Image
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Mark Twain
Image
Congress: America's only true criminal class.
Mark Twain
Image
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.
Mark Twain
Image
The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
Mark Twain
Image
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.
Mark Twain
Image
Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!
Mark Twain
Image
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
Mark Twain
Image
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
Mark Twain
Image
Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.
Mark Twain
Image
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
Image
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
Mark Twain
Image
from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.
Mark Twain
Image
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
Mark Twain