Quote

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

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
Unconscious
Lips
Babes
Babe
Sarcasm
Cynicism

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.
Mark Twain
Image
The Mississippi River will always have its own way no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
Mark Twain
Image
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.
Mark Twain
Image
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
Mark Twain
Image
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
Mark Twain
Image
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
Mark Twain
Image
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
Mark Twain
Image
And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Mark Twain
Image
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Mark Twain
Image
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
Mark Twain
Image
We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the Indian's God...Our illogical God is all-powerful in name, but impotent in fact the Great Spirit is not all-powerful, but does the very best he can for his injun and does it free of charge
Mark Twain
Image
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
Image
We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.
Mark Twain
Image
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. (In God we Trust) is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
Mark Twain
Image
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
Mark Twain
Image
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
Mark Twain
Image
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
Image
I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.
Mark Twain
Image
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed.
Mark Twain
Image
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
Mark Twain