Mark Twain Quotes

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain

Find, America, Wonderful

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain

Prayer, Relief, Denied

Better a broken promise than none at all.
Mark Twain

Broken, Promise, None

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Mark Twain

Hope, Lost, Lord

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

May, Word, Effective

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Mark Twain

Person, She, Call

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Children, Contempt, Breeds

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain

Between, Word, Almost

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain

Young, Pessimist, Sight

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

Society, Person, Made

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain

Good, Person, Ourselves

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

Intelligence, Mind, Sometimes

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain

Call, Dumb, Animal

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain

Nothing, Often, She

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

Between, Difference, Takes

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

Great, Wine, Water

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

Good, Cannot, Read

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Stubborn, Facts, Statistics

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain

Said, Able, Answer

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

Work, God, Tired

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain

Understand, Explain

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain

Old, Her, Bring

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

Person, Why, Involved

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Mark Twain

Remember, Year, Days

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 30, 1835

Died: April 21, 1910

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