Quote

when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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
Least
Hurt
Recollect
Doe
Jam
Back
Belonged
Something
Chapter
Autobiography
Chapters
Earlier

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.
Mark Twain
Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
Mark Twain
Image
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain
Image
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses never, I believe, by people.
Mark Twain
Image
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words it feels like music.
Mark Twain
Image
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
Mark Twain
Image
To believe yourself brave is to be brave it is the one only essential thing.
Mark Twain
Image
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
Mark Twain
Image
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
Image
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
Mark Twain
Image
Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain
Image
If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.
Mark Twain
Image
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Mark Twain
Image
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.
Mark Twain
Image
I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.
Mark Twain
Image
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
Mark Twain
Image
Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.
Mark Twain
Image
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.
Mark Twain
Image
Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
Mark Twain
Image
You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
Mark Twain