Top 100 Quotes About Mark Twain
#1. For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.
Michael Patrick Hearn
#2. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway,
#3. A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.
H.W. Brands
#4. Be here now. Be someplace else later. - DAVID BADER I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - MARK TWAIN
Bob Litwin
#5. Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
Kinky Friedman
#6. Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower intestine.' I'd put that on a T-shirt but probably Mark Twain already said it.
Jenny Lawson
#7. As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner
if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
Edward Abbey
#8. The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. " - Mark Twain
Rebecca Nugent
#9. Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
Val Kilmer
#10. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For
Park B. Romney
#11. Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty, Sarah commented.
Magnus Flyte
#12. Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
Dick Van Dyke
#14. The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.
Matt Groening
#15. Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.
Grace Gealey
#16. Mark Twain, the thinking man's Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Russell Brand
#17. There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.
Graham Lowe
#18. Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
Paul Theroux
#19. I had better water than that, and ran it lower down; started out from the false point - mark twain - raised the second reef abreast the big snag in the bend, and had quarter less twain.
Mark Twain
#20. There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason. - MARK TWAIN
Brian Tracy
#21. Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between lightning and the lightning bug, and people think he was good, right ? Didn't write any decent characters, as far as I can tell, but otherwise fine.
Adam Rex
#22. I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
Hal Holbrook
#24. First get the facts. Then you can distort them all you want. - Mark Twain
Chloe Neill
#25. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ~Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad
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#26. I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.
Tina Fey
#27. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know.
Laini Taylor
#28. Looking back on their past decisions about whether to purchase experiences, 83 percent of people sided with Mark Twain, reporting that their biggest single regret was one of inaction, of passing up the chance to buy an experience when the opportunity came along.
Elizabeth Dunn
#29. Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
Bob Newhart
#30. You can take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear. -- Mark Twain
Alexandra Nouri
#31. Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Dan Simmons
#32. The best American writers have come from the hinterlands
Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.
Edward Abbey
#33. Mark Twain.
The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.
Mark Twain
#34. Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes out of people, Johnny, not out of a lot of explanatory medical terms.
Samuel Fuller
#35. Mark Twain married the daughter of one of New York State's leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, who helped Frederick Douglass who became the great Negro leader to escape from slavery.
Hal Holbrook
#36. Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.
Val Kilmer
#37. Mark Twain has been credited as saying, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." And I might add a third: the day you throw off any distraction and decide to pursue your purpose fully.
Joshua Becker
#38. You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
Hal Holbrook
#39. Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.
Stephen King
#40. We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, but what we are sure we know.
Lama Surya Das
#41. So I "feckup" words sometimes ... I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company.
Emma Paul
#42. Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.
Stephen Schneider
#43. When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story's plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain's old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" still reigns in Hollywood.
James Morcan
#44. A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.
(on Mark Twain)
William Faulkner
#46. I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.
Arthur Bradford
#47. Perhaps my favorite quote on forgiveness is from Mark Twain: Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds, on the heel that has crushed it.
Wayne W. Dyer
#48. Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power
Saul D. Alinsky
#49. Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
Hal Holbrook
#50. Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.
Robert Littell
#51. History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes.
Adam Smith
#52. Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
Val Kilmer
#53. Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain's Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.
David Bianculli
#54. It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. - Mark Twain
Austin Kleon
#55. Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on the Mississippi
Don Quixote swept admiration for medieval chivalry-silliness out of existence. Ivanhoe restored it. Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
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#56. I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
Kid Rock
#57. [Mark] Twain was a publisher. He published General Grant's Memoirs (a big success) and had a hand in the publishing of many of his own books. He would, I think, be very keen about the question of how a book would sell.
Hal Holbrook
#58. Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: 'I don't know anything about this man. At least I know only two things; one is, he hasn't been in the penitentiary, and the other is (after a pause, and almost sadly), I don't know why.
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#59. Between Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Dorothy Parker, everything worth saying has already been said, and said better than i could ever say it
James Patterson
#60. [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.
Hal Holbrook
#61. The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
Tim Underwood
#62. Some came to help satisfy the various lusts of what Mark Twain called "a wild, free, disorderly, grotesque society! Men - only swarming hosts of stalwart men - nothing juvenile, nothing feminine visible anywhere.
Tom Cole
#63. A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.
Laini Taylor
#64. Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Wayne W. Dyer
#65. The most important day of your life is not the day you were born, it's the day you realize why!
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Rand Charles
#66. [An example of misattribution:]
If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.
- Mark Twain
Jakub Marian
#67. Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?
Stephen Leather
#68. Whiskey is for drinkin', water is for fightin'." She frowned. "Mark Twain," he said.
James Rollins
#69. Never let school get in the way of your education.
Mark Twain
Evelyn Krieger
#70. As Mark Twain cuttingly remarked, if you removed all occurrences of the phrase 'And it came to pass', the Book of Mormon would be reduced to a pamphlet.
Richard Dawkins
#71. Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander
#73. It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder ... why didn't I get this sooner?
Ellen DeGeneres
#74. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.
Wynton Marsalis
#75. She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a good walk spoiled.
Jonathan Maberry
#76. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
Debbie Macomber
#77. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and a lightening bug.
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Nancy Oswald
#78. Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.
Hal Holbrook
#79. A book I suggest to everybody is called, "Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It's about Satan and his visit here. A good book.
Richard Ramirez
#80. Of all their eccentricities, Sally most ferociously mocked the habit Lobsang and Joshua had developed of watching old movies in the bowels of the Mark Twain. (Joshua was glad she hadn't been on board when the two of them had dressed up for The Blues Brothers.)
Terry Pratchett
#81. Mark Twain once said, I can live for two months on a good compliment.
Gary Chapman
#82. Mark Twain said, two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Kaje Harper
#83. Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - MARK TWAIN
Jeff Goins
#84. I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
Roman Coppola
#85. Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
J. D. Hayworth
#86. Life has two important dates - when you're born and when you find out why. - Mark Twain 1.
Gregory Benford
#87. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain
Wayne W. Dyer
#88. LEARN FROM THE MASTERS:
Mark Twain once said, "Show, don't tell." This is an incredibly important lesson for writers to remember; never get such a giant head that you feel entitled to throw around obscure phrases like "Show, don't tell." Thanks for nothing, Mr. Cryptic.
Colin Nissan
#89. I think it was Mark Twain who said, Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.
Josh Lanyon
#90. Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,.
Bill Bradley
#91. Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
Hendrik Hertzberg
#92. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. Mark Twain
James Bowen
#93. If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.
Andy Borowitz
#94. If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be
a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
George Washington
#95. Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too ...
Kurt Vonnegut
#96. Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.
Val Kilmer
#97. To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.
Robin Williams
#98. Mark Twain on George Ade's writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master's hand.
George Ade
#99. An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
Thomas A. Edison
