Mark Twain Books And Reading Quotations

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot

Four years at West Point and plenty of books and schooling will learn a man a great deal, It won't learn him the river.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.