Quote

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

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
Two
Book
Eighty
Children
Saws
Going
Youth
Years
Child
Things
Year
Age
Tell

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
Mark Twain
Image
Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.
Mark Twain
Image
As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.
Mark Twain
Image
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
Mark Twain
Image
Make your vacation your vocation.
Mark Twain
Image
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
Mark Twain
Image
There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.
Mark Twain
Image
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
Mark Twain
Image
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark Twain
Image
Between us, we cover all knowledge he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
Mark Twain
Image
It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
Mark Twain
Image
We are all alike, on the inside.
Mark Twain
Image
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.
Mark Twain
Image
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.
Mark Twain
Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do he made trouble enough before.
Mark Twain
Image
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
Mark Twain
Image
To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
Mark Twain
Image
One must travel, to learn.
Mark Twain
Image
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
Mark Twain
Image
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
Mark Twain