Quote

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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
Littles
Body
Tones
Little
Wholesome
Human
Harmless
Humans
Prevents
Thing
Tone
Good
Keeps
World
Fun

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
Mark Twain
Image
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
Mark Twain
Image
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
Mark Twain
Image
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.
Mark Twain
Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
Mark Twain
Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Image
Between us, we cover all knowledge he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
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
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
Mark Twain
Image
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain
Image
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
Mark Twain
Image
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Mark Twain
Image
Frankness is a jewel only the young can afford it.
Mark Twain
Image
You want to be very careful about lying otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
Mark Twain
Image
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain
Image
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
Mark Twain
Image
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy aristocracy of the American type.
Mark Twain
Image
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain
Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
Image
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
Mark Twain