Mark Twain Born Quotations

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.

Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.

That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.

People born to be hanged are safe in water.

I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born

Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.

Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

If men bore children, there would only be one born in each family.

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return