Quote

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

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
Pray
Noble
Praying
Cutting
Enemy
Disadvantage
Seen
Disadvantages
Stop
Throat
Prayer
Gotten

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
Mark Twain
Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
Mark Twain
Image
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.
Mark Twain
Image
If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
Mark Twain
Image
Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain
Image
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
Mark Twain
Image
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Mark Twain
Image
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.
Mark Twain
Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
Image
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
Mark Twain
Image
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
Mark Twain
Image
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.
Mark Twain
Image
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different.
Mark Twain
Image
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Mark Twain
Image
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
Mark Twain
Image
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
Mark Twain
Image
The solution to our water problems is more rain.
Mark Twain
Image
Nature knows no indecencies man invents them.
Mark Twain
Image
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
Mark Twain