Quote

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

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
Enterprises
Vastly
Perform
Enterprise
Promise
Usually
Great

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
Mark Twain
Image
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.
Mark Twain
Image
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
Mark Twain
Image
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
Mark Twain
Image
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
Mark Twain
Image
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
Mark Twain
Image
You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
Mark Twain
Image
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
Mark Twain
Image
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.
Mark Twain
Image
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
Mark Twain
Image
Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain
Image
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
Mark Twain
Image
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.
Mark Twain
Image
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
Mark Twain
Image
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.
Mark Twain
Image
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books and it is the best I know it perfectly well.
Mark Twain
Image
There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
Mark Twain
Image
It is better to support schools than jails.
Mark Twain
Image
from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.
Mark Twain
Image
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain