Mark Twain Able Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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