Quotes
Quotes - Twain
This is petrified truth.
This poor little one-horse town.
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
Conductor, when you receive a fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare:
A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare,
A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare,
A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare,
Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
Chorus:
Punch, brothers, punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the passenjare.
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
When I'm playful, I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in Spring than in any other season. In the Spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.
Probable nor'-east to sou'-west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping round from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes with thunder and lightning.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
