Quote

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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
Might
Malicious
Right
Indestructible
Men
Abolish
Time
Possesses
Hence
Uncertain
Permanent
Single
Shifty

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.
Mark Twain
Image
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Mark Twain
Image
Few of us stand prosperity another man's I mean.
Mark Twain
Image
The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
Mark Twain
Image
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
Mark Twain
Image
How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
Mark Twain
Image
Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.
Mark Twain
Image
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
Mark Twain
Image
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
Mark Twain
Image
A better idea than my own is to listen.
Mark Twain
Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE
Mark Twain
Image
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training the odds are too heavy.
Mark Twain
Image
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
Mark Twain
Image
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Mark Twain
Image
When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
Image
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
Image
Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
Mark Twain
Image
Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain
Image
There will never be a perfect time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!
Mark Twain
Image
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain