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Mark Twain Quotes about Time

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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.

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.

Mark Twain
Time, Baby Boy, Son
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.25.

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

Mark Twain
Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Mark Twain
Time, Steps, Window

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

Mark Twain
Time, Writing, Long

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

Mark Twain
Time, Lying, Society

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

Mark Twain
Time, Home, Learning

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

Mark Twain
Time, Advice, Literature
Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree

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

Mark Twain
Time, Rope, Pieces
1897 Of Cecil Rhodes. Following the Equator, ch.2.

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.

Mark Twain
Girl, Time, Boys
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.264, Courier Corporation

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

Mark Twain
Funny, Time, Humorous
Provincial Letters: Letter XVI, December 4, 1656.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

Mark Twain
Time
1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.13.

Geological time is not money.

Mark Twain
Time, Money, Geological Time
Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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

Mark Twain
Leadership, Time, Inspiration
Mark Twain (2014). “Following The Equator”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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.

Mark Twain
Summer, Time, Memories
Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

Mark Twain
Summer, Time, June
Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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

Mark Twain
Time, Men, Healthy Habits
Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

Mark Twain
Time, Smoking, Cigar
Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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.

Mark Twain
Funny, Time, Men
Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Mark Twain
Time, Drag, Stills
1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ch.6.

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

Mark Twain
Time, Ignorance, Clothes
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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

Mark Twain
Time, Night, Boston
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.181, Jazzybee Verlag

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