Mark Twain Quotes About Bitterness

• Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Bullying

• If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

  Mark Twain

  Men, Age, Bitterness

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.154, Courier Corporation

• The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Years, Mind

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, College

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

• Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Bitterness, Delight

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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