Mark Twain Shining Quotations

Well, we can take you to meet Napoleon -- but he's shining the boots of the person who actually was the world's greatest military genius. He happens to have been a tinsmith from Pennsylvania who never had a chance to go to a military academy -- so he never even knew he was a great military genius. He was born with that capacity -- and only here in heaven do we actually know who these people are.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here.

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die;