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Well-Known Quotes by American Writer Mark Twain
Mark Twain is perhaps the most well-known American writer. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born in 1835. Twain died in 1910 at the age of 74.
Twain is most celebrated for his novels “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.
Twain was a gifted writer and humorist and is still often quoted in print and in speeches. We have arranged here a collection of his most famous quotations for your enjoyment.
The Quotes of Mark Twain (source) …
“Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It’s downright inhuman to split it up. But that’s what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.
Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death
Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
Mark Twain Book: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Australia
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