Mark Twain Quotes about Time

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”