Mark Twain Quotes About Waiting

• All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Worth The Wait, Good Things

  Mark Twain (2002). “Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls”, Mjf Books

• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Sheep, Waiting

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.338, Courier Corporation

• If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

  Mark Twain

  Weather, Waiting, England

• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Sheep, Two

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.62, Univ of California Press

• I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

  Mark Twain

  Hunting, Long, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

• Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Time, Men

  Mark Twain (1897). “More Tramps Abroad”

• The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

  Mark Twain

  Artist, Waiting, Messages

• Don't wait the time is never just right.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting

• He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Waiting, Vacancy

• Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Pride, Wind

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.34, Chartwell

• When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Odds, Waiting

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.8, Collector's Library

• Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Waiting, Three

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.286, Courier Corporation

• Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

  Mark Twain

  Long Ago, Years, Long

• A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Waiting, Vacancy

• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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