Quotes About Mark Twain

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain humorously quipped: "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.

Heaven for the weather and Hell for the company." "Who said that?" "Mark Twain.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.

Heaven goes by favor if it went by merit you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Ma citation préférée qui décrit Boston, ma ville natale, est vraiment bien par grand écrivain Mark Twain, qui a dit "à Boston ils demandent, combien savent-t-il? à New York, combien vaut-il? à Philadelphie, qui étaient son parents? "ce est tellement vrai. qui plus est, boston est l'endroit où tout le monde connaît votre nom. acclamations à Boston, la plus belle ville en Amérique!

My favorite quote that describes Boston, my home town, really well is by great writer Mark Twain, who said "In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?" It's so true. What's more, Boston is the place where everybody knows your name. Cheers to Boston, the most wonderful city in America!

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

As he settled in, he assessed the way he felt with one of his favorite phrases from Mark Twain—the calm confidence of a Christian holding four aces. He slept well.

Mark Twain fell in love with his wife after he saw her picture painted on an ivory miniature the size of a fingernail.

Well," Winston said, "a few of the others are proclaiming 'faith' to be the only answer. Considering our present location, I considered it particularly bold of Mark Twain to loudly refer to their assertion as brownnosing.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Around this time, Mark Twain belonged to a small, irregular Confederate company and later claimed for comic effect that he had been pursued by Grant's troops. As he said facetiously, "I did not know that this was the future General Grant or I would have turned and attacked him. I supposed it was just some ordinary Colonel of no particular consequence, so I let him go."35 In fact, Twain had been in the vicinity weeks earlier.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.