Top 100 Quotes About Twain
#1. Mark Twain.
The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.
Mark Twain
#2. But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.
Russell Banks
#3. The most important day of your life is not the day you were born, it's the day you realize why!
Mark Twain
Rand Charles
#4. In reading Twain, I often suspect he is having more fun than I am.
Gabrielle Zevin
#5. Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.
And never the twain shall meet.
Laini Taylor
#6. If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
Ralph Ellison
#7. Huh, Kelsier thought. He holds the powers of creation in twain, a god among gods. And he's still a terrible liar.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
Faith Hill
#12. The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."
Mark Twain
Tim Underwood
#13. [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
#14. 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
#15. 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.
Mark Twain
#16. [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
#17. 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
#18. 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
Mark Twain
#19. It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. - Mark Twain
Austin Kleon
#20. 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
#21. Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.
Val Kilmer
#22. Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
Frank Zappa
#23. History may not repeat itself," in Mark Twain's wise formulation, "but it rhymes.
Adam Smith
#24. Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
Gelett Burgess
#25. 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
#26. The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;
William Shakespeare
#27. Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.
Hal Holbrook
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#32. A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe.
(on Mark Twain)
William Faulkner
#33. The stranger's first feeling, when suddenly confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath-taking astonishment. It is as if heaven's gates had swung open and exposed the throne. (Twain on seeing the Jungfrau.)
Mark Twain
#34. LET us twain walk aside from the rest;
Now we are together privately, do you discard ceremony,
Come! vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none - Tell me the whole story,
Tell me what you would not tell your brother, wife, husband, or physician.
Walt Whitman
#35. Science does not need religion. Religion does not need science. And the twain shall never meet
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#36. 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
#37. Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.
Stephen Schneider
#38. So I "feckup" words sometimes ... I write in a colloquial style, so did Mark Twain. Seems I'm in pretty good company.
Emma Paul
#39. 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
#40. People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.
Andy Gray
#41. We twain have met like the ships upon the sea, Who behold an hour's converse, so short, so sweet: One little hour! and then, away they speed On lonely paths, through mist, and cloud, and foam, To meet no more.
Alexander Smith
#42. Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.
Stephen King
#43. Singularity is seen as an event horizon. There's everything that comes before it and everything that comes after it and never the twain shall meet, in much the same way that Judeo-Christian theology presents its notion of the afterlife - there's a very clear and impermeable demarcation there.
Ron Currie Jr.
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 'I love to cook. Very healthy eating ... ' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'
Shania Twain
#49. Well: Love and Pain
Be kinfolks twain;
Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.
Sidney Lanier
#50. Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J.R. Moehringer
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway,
#54. Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.
Julianne Hough
#55. I never let my schoolin' interfere with my learnin' "_Mark Twain
Mark Twain
#56. A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.
H.W. Brands
#57. 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
#58. Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
Kinky Friedman
#59. 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
#61. Cat my dogs ef it ain't de powerfulest dream I ever seen," as Joyce, quoting Twain, copied in his notebook on Huckleberry Finn.
John "Book Of The Dark" Bishop
#62. As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner
if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'
Edward Abbey
#63. The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. " - Mark Twain
Rebecca Nugent
#64. Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
Val Kilmer
#65. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For
Park B. Romney
#66. Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty, Sarah commented.
Magnus Flyte
#67. 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
#69. Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,
Hoard not thy beauty rose and white,
But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers
That deck our little path of light:
For all too soon we twain shall tread
The bitter pastures of the dead:
Estranged, sad spectres of the night.
Ernest Dowson
#70. 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
#71. Twain please!" Peck blubbered. "It was never personal. It was just business!"
"Oh Peck, do you think I'm mad at you? I"m a lawyer. I don't get mad. I don't get even." Twain gave him a wicked smile. " I sue people.
Arthur Daigle
#72. a parallel world than a religious kind of afterlife. In fact, he was especially critical of religious leaders, whom Twain felt had been using the fear of death and threats of hell to control the minds of their followers. Over the Ouija board, Twain told Hutchings:
Richard Bullivant
#73. east was east and west was west and never the twain shall meet, and
Christine Pope
#74. 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
#75. I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.
Steve Jobs
#76. No more can I be sever'd from your side, Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:
William Shakespeare
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
Bob Newhart
#82. 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
#83. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know.
Laini Taylor
#84. I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.
Tina Fey
#85. 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
Mark Twain
#86. First get the facts. Then you can distort them all you want. - Mark Twain
Chloe Neill
#88. I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.
Hal Holbrook
#89. We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling
#90. 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
#91. For though I tried to move his arm - unlock his bridegroom clasp - yet, sleeping as he was, he still hugged me tightly, as though naught but death should part us twain.
Herman Melville
#92. How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason,
Reason none,
If what parts, can so remain.
William Shakespeare
#93. OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. So they loved as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distinct, divisions none ...
William Shakespeare
#97. There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason. - MARK TWAIN
Brian Tracy
#98. Careful, there's man love and there's business love, and never the twain shall meet.
Mark Corrigan
#99. 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
#100. I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.
Kevin Keck
