Mark Twain Quotes about Waiting

Don't wait the time is never just right.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

Mark Twain

Waiting

All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

Mark Twain

Waiting, Worth The Wait, Good Things

Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Mark Twain

Weather, Waiting, England

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Sheep, Waiting

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

Mark Twain

Artist, Waiting, Messages

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

Mark Twain

Waiting, Purpose, Strange

Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

Mark Twain

Hunting, Long, Waiting

Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

Men, Waiting, Vacancy

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

Mark Twain

Simple, Waiting, Three

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.286, Courier Corporation

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

Sarcastic, Waiting, Vacancy

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

Mark Twain

Prayer, Odds, Waiting

Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

Mark Twain Quotes about Waiting

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