Mark Twain Quotes About Dreads

• Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Eight, Gone

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “The travels of Mark Twain”

• In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Believe, Sleep

  Mark Twain, John C. Gerber, Terry Firkins (1983). “Tom Sawyer Abroad ; Tom Sawyer Detective”, p.180, Univ of California Press

• The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

  Mark Twain

  Light, Water, Laughing

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Courier Corporation

• Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

  Mark Twain

  Men, Dread, Happens

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4637, Delphi Classics

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