Mark Twain Matter Quotations

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

A German joke is no laughing matter.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul

People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to them—who have the organ of hope preposterously developed—who are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperament—who never feel concerned about the price of corn—and who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a picture—are very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.

There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart