Quotes from Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.
- Mark Twain
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
- Mark Twain
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
- Mark Twain
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
- Mark Twain
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
- Mark Twain
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
- Mark Twain
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
- Mark Twain
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
- Mark Twain
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
- Mark Twain