Quote

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

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
Mind
Master
Sprung
Minds
Multitude
Masters
Multitudes
Mass
Tyrants
Nation
Privileged
Class
Classes
Nations
Ages
Age
Tyranny
Affluent

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.
Mark Twain
Image
To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain
Image
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.
Mark Twain
Image
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Mark Twain
Image
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.
Mark Twain
Image
Damn these human beings if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
Mark Twain
Image
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Image
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
Mark Twain
Image
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Mark Twain
Image
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
Mark Twain
Image
When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Image
To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth.
Mark Twain
Image
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
Mark Twain
Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
Mark Twain
Image
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.
Mark Twain
Image
The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.
Mark Twain
Image
It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.
Mark Twain
Image
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones it can lift men to angelship.
Mark Twain
Image
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
Image
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
Mark Twain