Mark Twain Quotes About Prophecy

• It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

  Mark Twain

  Cities, Trying, Chicago

  Mark Twain (2014). “Life On The Mississippi”, p.643, Jazzybee Verlag

• I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.

  Mark Twain

  Media, Talking, Community

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

• The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Difficult, Prophecy

  Andrew Leckey, Mark Twain (2001). “The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil: Mark Twain's Timeless Advice on Money and Wealth for Today's Investor”

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