Mark Twain Until Quotations

The people stared at us everywhere, and we stared at them. We bore down on them with America's greatness until we crushed them.

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds

It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until Moral Sense brings it into being