Mark Quotes

2058 quotes by 1549 authors

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
I like commas. I detest semi-colons â€” I donâ€™t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain. — Thomas A. Edison
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success. — Abdul Kalam
I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed… — Luc Sante
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Prejudice marks a mental landmine. — Gloria Steinem
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion;… — Arthur Koestler
Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark… — Norman Douglas
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor. — H. L. Mencken
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. — Alan Bradley
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit… — George Will
Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party. — Andre Gide
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… — Eric Temple Bell
The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy. — Sam Shoemaker
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson

Who Wrote These Mark Quotes

1,549 authors contributed a total of 2,058 Mark Quotes, led by these top contributors: