QuotesBy.net


Home › Authors › S › Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Quote #160

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.

— Samuel Langhorne Clemens

More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  1. Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare: A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for …
  2. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
  3. This is petrified truth.
  4. What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
  5. If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
  6. There is something worse than ignorance, and that's knowing what ain't so.
  7. Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often.
  8. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

All Samuel Langhorne Clemens quotes

← Samuel Laman Blanchard All S authors Samuel Lover →

Related quotes

  • To save all we must risk all. Friedrich von Schiller
  • Where you start is not as important as where you finish. Zig Ziglar
  • Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his bes… Oscar Wilde
  • A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of cou… Bill Bryson
  • 'I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?' 'I left off st… Donald McGill
  • Well, you can't make no butter with a toothpick... Robin Williams

Topics in this quote

  • humor
  • effort
  • goal
  • impossibility
  • practicality

Related authors

  • Orson Scott Card
  • George W. Bush
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Phil Hendrie

Browse

  • Authors starting with S
  • All authors A–Z

QuotesBy.net