Mark Twain1835–1910A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle JohnsonI didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- In: William E. Phipps Mark Twain’s Religion, Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 196
- ‘s Notebook (1935)
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
The problem is not that we have too many fools, it’s that the lightning isn’t distributed right.
Often credited to Mark Twain
Quotes often credited to Mark Twain that were said or written by someone else.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
?UnattributedOften credited to Mark TwainDon’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
RBRobert J. BurdetteOften credited to Mark TwainAge is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Jack Benny1894–1974Often credited to Mark Twain
Josh Billings1818–1885Often credited to Mark Twain- ?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Markus Herz1747–1803Often credited to Mark Twain
