Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older…

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

— Mark Twain

The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal and social…

— Robert L. Payton

“History is always older. —Black Fez axiom”

— Richard Due

“Who are we to combat poisons older than history and mankind?”

— H. P. Lovecraft

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. Â Mark Twain

— Mark Twain

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

“Never let school get in the way of your education. Mark Twain”

— Evelyn Krieger

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

— Robin Williams

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes…

— Samuel Fuller

The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom…

— Norman Lock

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when…

— Evan Osnos