Quote

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

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
Full
Days
Seen
Values
Lives
Better
Value

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
Mark Twain
Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
Mark Twain
Image
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
Mark Twain
Image
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Mark Twain
Image
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain
Image
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.
Mark Twain
Image
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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
There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
Mark Twain
Image
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.
Mark Twain
Image
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
Mark Twain
Image
The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.
Mark Twain
Image
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.
Mark Twain
Image
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
Image
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
Mark Twain
Image
To forget pain is to be painless to forget care is to be rid of it to go abroad is to accomplish both.
Mark Twain
Image
We are discreet sheep we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Mark Twain
Image
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
Mark Twain
Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Mark Twain