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"Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it." - Legendary Quotes by Author Mark Twain
Mark Twain is one of the most famous American novelists (Mark Twain Books NZ). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835. Samuel Clemens died April 1910 at the age of 74 in Redding, Connecticut.
Twain is perhaps most well-known for his books "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
Twain was a well-regarded writer and is often quoted. We have collected here several of his more famous quotations for your pleasure.
And Now The Famous Quotations by Mark Twain:
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
(He was) a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics.
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
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