mark twain Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain | 30 November 1835 | 21 April 1910 | American | John Marshall Clemens | Jane Lampton Clemens | Journalist, Novelist, Humorist, Author, Teacher | An adventurer and wily intellectual, Mark Twain wrote the classic American novels 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. |
A list of popular mark twain quotes are given below.
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." - Mark Twain
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards." - Mark Twain
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain
"When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved." - Mark Twain
"Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself." - Mark Twain
"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her." - Mark Twain
"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." - Mark Twain
"I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other." - Mark Twain
"One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her." - Mark Twain
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain
"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." - Mark Twain
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot." - Mark Twain
"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty." - 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