Mark Twain ( 10 of 310 )
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so read more
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can read more
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.. -Mark Twain.
Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it
Citizenship is what makes a republic; monarchies can get along without it
It is wiser to find out than to suppose
It is wiser to find out than to suppose
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop read more
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -Mark Twain.
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
