Quotes by Twain, Mark

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. >>

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radica >>

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that >>

Quotations about Ridicule

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly. >>

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that >>

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule. >>

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

Twain, Mark