In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. Mark Twain More Quotes by Mark Twain More Quotes From Mark Twain There is no such thing as an ordinary life. Mark Twain ordinary-life ordinary inspirational It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve Mark Twain unwelcome Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain men boys order That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace. Mark Twain want long thinking When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. Mark Twain majority insane asylums You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Mark Twain aunt adventure book She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die. Mark Twain dies determination compliment Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays. Mark Twain holiday fishing school Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene Mark Twain curtains charity scene I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live. Mark Twain men hands thinking Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. Mark Twain time men funny How slow and still the time did drag along. Mark Twain drag stills time But it warn't no time to be sentimentering. Mark Twain time The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. Mark Twain clothes ignorance time It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden Mark Twain burden god bears None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good. Mark Twain good-god god To be busy is man's only happiness. Mark Twain determination happiness men The funniest things are the forbidden. Mark Twain novelists humorous funny Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. Mark Twain fragrance humor decoration Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes. Mark Twain plant humorous animal
