Mark Twain Ton Quotations

But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience 4000 critics.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.

I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''