Mark Twain Quotes

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

It's the most ridiculous business to be in. It's full of people who have never grown up.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.

I look 10 years younger than I am. Unfortunately, sometimes I act like I'm 10 years old.

You must always remember that the President is about 6 years old.

One has the impression that the young do not want to, or perhaps cannot, grow up. Our campuses have become dour, playless nurseries echoing with doctrinaire baby talk. You see six-foot babies clamoring for power and protesting against universities not having adequate arrangements for child care.

It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

My wife likes to say I act like a kid, so maybe that's why I sing like one!

Adults are only kids grown up

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age