Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
More Quotes from Mark Twain:
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.Mark Twain
We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain
Mark Twain
Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in
Mark Twain
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write ''metropolis'' for seven cents, because I can get the same money for ''city'.' I never write ''policeman',' because I can get the same price for ''cop'.'... I never write ''valetudinarian'' at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
Mark Twain
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also
Mark Twain
Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
Mark Twain
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Age Quotes, Life QuotesIn love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.
Alexander Scriabin
Government is not show business.
Warren Beatty
Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.
David Coverdale