Quotes from Mark Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
- Mark Twain
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
- Mark Twain
I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.
- Mark Twain
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
- Mark Twain
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.
- Mark Twain
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.
- Mark Twain
Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
- Mark Twain
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
- Mark Twain
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
- Mark Twain