Mark Twain Quotes

I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

I have back-and-forth feelings about everything a lot - it's not limited to my albums.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

You've got to stop going back and forth. You've got to make up your mind.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

I'm really paying attention. People make up their minds late.

I have no answers, but every day I wish I could have the same point of view for any 24-hour period. I wish I was in some system where I don't constantly question myself.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.