Quotes from Mark Twain

and whirled on the purple glare! There they were, all going at once, red, blue, green, purple! Four furious volcanoes pouring vast clouds of radiant smoke aloft, and spreading a blinding rainbowed noonday to the furthest confines of that valley.

Just as I was moaning out the closing hunks of that word. I touched off one of my electric connections, and all that murky world of people stood revealed in a hideous blue glare! It was immense—that effect! Lots of people shrieked, women curled up and quit in every direction, foundlings collapsed by platoons. The abbot and the monks crossed themselves nimbly and their lips fluttered with agitated prayers.

we brought the wires to the ground at the chapel, and then brought them under the ground to the platform, and hid the batteries there.

Without dreams and goals there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt

As long as you're in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there

About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne. When you are going to do a miracle for an ignorant race, you want to get in every detail that will count;

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. "The Babies

brought everything I needed—tools, pump, lead pipe, Greek fire, sheaves of big rockets, roman candles, colored-fire sprays, electric apparatus, and a lot of sundries—everything necessary for the stateliest kind of a miracle.

My boys were experts in all sorts of things, from the stoning up of a well to the constructing of a mathematical instrument. An hour before sunrise we had that leak mended in shipshape fashion, and the water began to rise.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.

Your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I can't; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Never let school interfere with your education

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.