Top 188 Twain Quotes & Sayings

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.

Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

'White Christmas' is the best holiday song and I've grown up listening to Michael Buble's version with Shania Twain.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.

I grew up with Mark Twain, and we had the complete Hemingway at home, of course in German translation.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Going into the past, I've always thought Mark Twain would be cool to hang out with for a little bit.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

We all like all kinds of music. Like, I love Shania Twain.

Titian and Rembrandt, Monet and Rodin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Mark Twain and Henry James, Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop, to name a few. Twain wrote 'Tom Sawyer' at 41 and bettered it with 'Huckleberry Finn' at 50; Wright completed Fallingwater at 72 and worked on the Guggenheim Museum until his death at 91.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it's marinated in humor.

Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon. The Mormon claimed polygamy was perfectly moral and he defied Twain to cite any passage of Scripture which forbade it. 'Well,' said Twain, 'how about that passage that tells us no man can serve two masters at the same time?'

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

But I can tell you that my favourite singer is Shania Twain and my favourite band is Lonestar.

In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language, and I mean including America and England, at some time wrote for Punch. Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men In A Boat, I loved. I was very impressed when I read a piece by Mark Twain in Punch, and realized that despite the fact that they were on different continents, Jerome K. Jerome and Mark Twain had the same kind of laconic, laid-back, "The human race is damn stupid, but quite interesting" attitude. They were almost talking with the same voice.

I wouldn't be an artist if I didn't have Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Taylor Swift to look up to.

Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

I love Mark Twain's words - 'I've never allowed college to interfere with my education.'

'I love to cook. Very healthy eating. ...' Twain also forgoes meat, dairy, and eggs. 'Nothing,' she declares, 'that had to die.'

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

The first album I owned was probably a Backstreet Boys album, and shortly after was Shania Twain.

I was writing waltzes at a time when the most popular thing was Shania Twain and the very pop edge of country. I didn't really know how to do much of that.

A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain. Carlo DeVito brings us back one hundred years to a magical time in Twain's family life, revealing a house that's brimming with love and laughter, as well as the profound heartbreaks of life. A Mark Twain Christmas only deepens our understanding and respect for both the man and his work.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.

Well, I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain 'Come on Over' CD and that's about it.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

My favorite singer was Shania Twain. I would love for her to sing with me. And J. Lo - they are my favorites.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.