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- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep…
- You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.…
- (Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea.
- Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. --Mark Twain
More Twain Quotes
- Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their… — Edith Wharton
- He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby… — Mark Twain
- What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. — John Updike
- With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays;… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like… — Ellen DeGeneres
- I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. — Tina Fey
- People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The… — Andy Gray
- I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. — Jackson Browne
- You've got a way with words. You got me smiling even when it hurts. There's no way to measure what your love… — Marilyn Monroe
- King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who… — Edward Abbey
- The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of… — Edward Abbey
- As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!' — Edward Abbey