Famous Mark Twain Quotes

  • While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. – Mark Twain

    While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.– Mark Twain

  • Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. – Mark Twain

    Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.– Mark Twain

  • A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. – Mark Twain

    A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.– Mark Twain

  • Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain

    Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.– Mark Twain

  • Perfect grammar–persistent, continuous, sustained–is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it. – Mark Twain

    Perfect grammar–persistent, continuous, sustained–is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.– Mark Twain

  • Perfect grammar–persistent, continuous, sustained–is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have sought it, but none has found it.– Mark Twain

  • The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be?–it is the same the angels breathe. – Mark Twain

    The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be?–it is the same the angels breathe.– Mark Twain

  • Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it? – Mark Twain

    Who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it?– Mark Twain

  • If the writer doesn’t sweat, the reader will. – Mark Twain

    If the writer doesn’t sweat, the reader will.– Mark Twain

  • The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say. – Mark Twain

    The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.– Mark Twain