Quote

Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.

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
Intentions
Intention
Results
Half
Evil
Good

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
Mark Twain
Image
In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.
Mark Twain
Image
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Mark Twain
Image
Tough times teach trust.
Mark Twain
Image
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
Mark Twain
Image
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
Mark Twain
Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
Mark Twain
Image
Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Mark Twain
Image
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
Mark Twain
Image
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
Mark Twain
Image
All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.
Mark Twain
Image
And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Mark Twain
Image
That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.
Mark Twain
Image
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
Mark Twain
Image
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket - which is but a matter of saying, Scatter your money and your attention but the wise man saith, Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Mark Twain
Image
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
Mark Twain
Image
Humor is man's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
Image
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
Image
The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
Mark Twain
Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Mark Twain