Mark Twain Time Quotations

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

New Year's Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama

You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.

It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Geological time is not money.

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

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.