Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Mark Twain
Quotes by Mark Twain 4
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne -- Pen name Mark Twain -- 1835-1910. American author and humorist who drew on his childhood along the Mississippi River to create masterpieces of humor and sarcasm, including Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered- either by themselves or by others.
Happiness ain't a thing in itself- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstacies cheap and trivial.
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