“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.” – A Collection of Legendary Quotes by American Writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain is perhaps the most well-known American author (New Zealand Mark Twain Books). Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Clemens. He was born in 1835. He died April 1910 at the age of 74 in Connecticut.
Mark Twain is perhaps most celebrated for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.
Twain was a talented writer and is very often quoted in print and in speeches. We have arranged here some of his more famous quotes for your pleasure.
The Quotations of Mark Twain …
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, — which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and — watch that basket.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Fagget Fairys – Feed The Horse
