Mark Twain Quotes About Babies

• We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Common

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2170, GENERAL PRESS

• A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Motivational, Baby

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

  Mark Twain

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

• Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Witty, Baby

• Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

  Mark Twain

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 4, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Fighting, Boys

• A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Angel, Wings

• Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Real, Differences

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

• A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

  Mark Twain

  Beauty, Baby, Noses

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2422, Delphi Classics

• There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

  Mark Twain

  Teacher, Baby, Father

• The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Ideas, House

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

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