Mark Twain Quotes About Birth

• The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Death

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 9, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

  Mark Twain

  Children, School, Men

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.437, Univ of California Press

• Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Way, Firsts

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