Mark Twain Quotes, Wise Quotes, Stupid Quotes

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wise Quotes , Stupid Quotes

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Perseverance Quotes

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Years Quotes

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowing Quotes

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Women Quotes , People Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Glasses Quotes , Ideas Quotes

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Lying Quotes , People Quotes

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Believe Quotes , Literature Quotes

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , No Trust Quotes , Rising Quotes

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Book Quotes

You cannot have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. Perfect love cannot be without equality. A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing. We are all alike, on the inside.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Equality Quotes , Perfect Quotes

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Men Quotes

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Kings Quotes

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Life Quotes , Successful Quotes

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wine Quotes , Water Quotes

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Vacancy Quotes , World Quotes

I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Ideas Quotes

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Prayer Quotes , Taken Quotes

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wine Quotes , Bottles Quotes