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Letter "M" » Mark Twain Quotes
«For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Future,
Past
| Keywords:
experiment, majority, regret
«Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
concerning, jackass, Jackasses, observers, The Observer, wrongs
«The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.»
«No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad»
«Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertisements, newspaper, relied, truths
«People born to be hanged are safe in water.»
«Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them.»
«The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.»
«A nation is only an individual multiplied»
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
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