English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Mark Twain Quotes

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

Mark Twain

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Clive Bell quote: "Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age."
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. Clive Bell
Jimmy Buffett quote: "Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in..."
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. Jimmy Buffett
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do. Hugh Grant
Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. (...) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. John Osborne
Milan Kundera quote: "True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come..."
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Milan Kundera
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. Corrie Ten Boom
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. Chinua Achebe
Doug Coupland quote: "With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink..."
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies. Doug Coupland
George Santayana quote: "Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient..."
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. George Santayana
Mike Figgis quote: "I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."
I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. Mike Figgis
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it. L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "You can never tell about those Yankees!"
You can never tell about those Yankees! L. M. Montgomery
Walid Jumblatt quote: "There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians,..."
There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France. Walid Jumblatt
Herman Melville quote: "counterpane"
counterpane Herman Melville
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home. James McBride