Quotes of: Twain Keyword

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Hal Holbrook

As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse he...

The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Jackson Browne

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

Val Kilmer

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

Kinky Friedman

Human nature is all alike.

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

They did not know it was impossible, so they did it. Mark Twain

The Room Between the Floorboards

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

Mark Twain

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe." (on Mark Twain)

William Faulkner

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, “Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud.�...

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning...

The Twain: Poems of Earth and Ether

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Lloyd Alexander

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.

Dick Van Dyke

A loafer always has the correct time.

Kin Hubbard

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight

The Higher Animals: A Mark Twain Bestiary

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

Russell Banks

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

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

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

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

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

Kin Hubbard

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