Quote

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

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
Honor
Higher
Study
Made
Life
Acquiring
Graduated
Ignorance

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.
Mark Twain
Image
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
Mark Twain
Image
We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.
Mark Twain
Image
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
Mark Twain
Image
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of smartness--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artifici
Mark Twain
Image
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Mark Twain
Image
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.
Mark Twain
Image
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three I attended their funerals.
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
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
Mark Twain
Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
Mark Twain
Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
Mark Twain
Image
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
Mark Twain
Image
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
Mark Twain
Image
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
Image
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
Mark Twain
Image
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain
Image
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
Mark Twain
Image
If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.
Mark Twain
Image
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
Mark Twain