Mark Twain Able Quotations

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.