8 Mark Twain Quotes on Time

Mark Twain quotes on time

28. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

31. I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I'm not feeling so well myself.

57. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

62. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

107. Herodotus says, 'Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects'.

149. The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

197. Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

206. Tomorrow is the yesterday of two days from now.