But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering. — Mark Twain

Geological time is not money. — Mark Twain

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking. — Mark Twain

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. — Mark Twain

I apologize for such a long letter–I didn’t have time to write a short one.” — Mark Twain

How slow and still the time did drag along. — Mark Twain

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time. — Mark Twain

I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time. — Mark Twain

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. — Mark Twain

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time. — Mark Twain

If I had more time, I would have written less. — Mark Twain

Humor is tragedy plus time. — Mark Twain

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent. — Mark Twain

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time–and hardly that, in my case. — Mark Twain

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. — Mark Twain

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business — Mark Twain

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. — Mark Twain

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. — Mark Twain

The nomadic instinct is a human instinct; — Mark Twain

Everything human is pathetic — Mark Twain

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can’t be any worse. — Mark Twain

I am only human, although I regret it. — Mark Twain

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. — Mark Twain

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. — Mark Twain

There isn’t anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can’t believe it. — Mark Twain

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. — Mark Twain

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty. — Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat. — Mark Twain

All human rules are more or less idiotic. — Mark Twain

To eat is human, to digest, divine — Mark Twain

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. — Mark Twain

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter… — Mark Twain

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Mark Twain

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another. — Mark Twain

It is your human environment that makes climate — Mark Twain

There is no accounting for human beings. — Mark Twain

Always tell the truth; then you don’t have to remember anything — Mark Twain

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. — Mark Twain

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. — Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. — Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. — Mark Twain

The truth is a precious commodity. That’s why I use it so sparingly. — Mark Twain

Truth is such a precious article–let us all economize in its use. — Mark Twain

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. — Mark Twain

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth. — Mark Twain

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. — Mark Twain

A half–truth is the most cowardly of lies. — Mark Twain

Tell the truth or trump–but get the trick. — Mark Twain

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. — Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Mark Twain

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can’t get it out. — Mark Twain

Children and fools always speak the truth. — Mark Twain

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. — Mark Twain

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them. — Mark Twain

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired. — Mark Twain

Love heightens all senses–except the common. — Mark Twain

In love, you pay as you leave. — Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths — Mark Twain

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public. — Mark Twain

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast. — Mark Twain

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. — Mark Twain

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made. — Mark Twain

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. — Mark Twain

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. — Mark Twain

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand––but He reserves vengeance for His very own. — Mark Twain

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction. — Mark Twain

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union. — Mark Twain

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away. — Mark Twain

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature. — Mark Twain

Don’t wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality — Mark Twain

Don’t you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard — Mark Twain

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him. — Mark Twain

The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. — Mark Twain

Let us save the tomorrows for work. — Mark Twain

Talent without work is useless, thank God — Mark Twain

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. — Mark Twain

Synergy–the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. — Mark Twain

Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired. — Mark Twain

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man’s work. — Mark Twain

My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. — Mark Twain

God’s noblest work. Man who found it out? Man. — Mark Twain

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! — Mark Twain

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Mark Twain

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work. — Mark Twain

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. — Mark Twain

Travel is lethal to prejudice. — Mark Twain

To be busy is man’s only happiness. — Mark Twain

There is no such thing as an ordinary life. — Mark Twain

You can’t make a life over. Society wouldn’t let you if you would. — Mark Twain

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has. — Mark Twain

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. — Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. — Mark Twain

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way. — Mark Twain

The only certainties in life are death and taxes. — Mark Twain

There is no security in life, only opportunity. — Mark Twain

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened. — Mark Twain

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened. — Mark Twain

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened. — Mark Twain

Obscurity and a competence–that is the life that is best worth living. — Mark Twain

Don’t dream your life, but live your dream — Mark Twain

I have replaced his tin life with a silver–gilt fiction” — Mark Twain

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened. — Mark Twain

It is a pity we can’t escape from life when we are young. — Mark Twain

The future interests me–I’m going to spend the rest of my life there. — Mark Twain

Life is so beautiful. nobody can control your life — Mark Twain

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life. — Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be. — Mark Twain

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind. — Mark Twain

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even. — Mark Twain

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain

Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most. — Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. — Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. — Mark Twain

A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved. — Mark Twain

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind. — Mark Twain

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up. — Mark Twain

Definite speech means clarity of mind. — Mark Twain

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity. — Mark Twain

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged. — Mark Twain

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled. — Mark Twain

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them. — Mark Twain

It’s a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog. — Mark Twain

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn’t any clothes on, and didn’t mind. — Mark Twain

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. — Mark Twain

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. — Mark Twain

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds. — Mark Twain

There isn’t any way to libel the human race. — Mark Twain

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. — Mark Twain

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race. — Mark Twain

The human race consists of the damned and the ought–to–be damned. — Mark Twain

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. — Mark Twain

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce. — Mark Twain

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan? — Mark Twain

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. — Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. — Mark Twain

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race. — Mark Twain

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That’s bad enough for me. — Mark Twain

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. — Mark Twain

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition — Mark Twain

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. — Mark Twain

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain

Each man is afraid of his neighbor’s disapproval–a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. — Mark Twain

Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. — Mark Twain

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done–these are traits of the human race at large. — Mark Twain