Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.
Mark Twain
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Things
Never
Life
Worried
Happened
More quotes by Mark Twain
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
Mark Twain
If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
Mark Twain
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.
Mark Twain
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
Mark Twain
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
Mark Twain
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil half the results of an evil intention are good.
Mark Twain
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Mark Twain
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.
Mark Twain
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
Mark Twain
He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.
Mark Twain
Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.
Mark Twain
To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth.
Mark Twain
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
Mark Twain
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain
Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
Mark Twain
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
Mark Twain
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
Mark Twain
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
Mark Twain
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
Mark Twain
