Quotes of: Mark-twain Keyword

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Life

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Scrawny? Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.

The Mark of Athena

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

Katherine Anne Porter

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

The Mark of Athena

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!' 'Valdez who?

The Mark of Athena

People don't really read your books, they only say they do, to keep you from feeling bad.

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Kin Hubbard

A consciously exaggerated compliment is an offense.

Who Is Mark Twain?

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

Martina Navratilova

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.

The Mark of Athena

This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

The Mark of Athena

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Peter De Vries

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

E. T. Bell

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.

The Mark of Athena