Quotes from Mark Twain
Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
- Mark Twain
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
- Mark Twain
Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
- Mark Twain
Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).
- Mark Twain
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
- Mark Twain
Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.
- Mark Twain
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
- Mark Twain
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
- Mark Twain
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
- Mark Twain
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
- Mark Twain
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
- Mark Twain
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.
- Mark Twain