Quote

God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

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
Attention
Writing
Always
Intervals
Exhibits
Thunder
Lightning
Command
God

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
Mark Twain
Image
Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.
Mark Twain
Image
If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.
Mark Twain
Image
To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain
Image
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
Mark Twain
Image
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain
Image
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
Mark Twain
Image
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
Mark Twain
Image
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
Mark Twain
Image
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark Twain
Image
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
Image
Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.
Mark Twain
Image
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age in 1977 I shall be 142.
Mark Twain
Image
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
Mark Twain
Image
Too much is just enough.
Mark Twain
Image
Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.
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
Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
Mark Twain
Image
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
Mark Twain