Old Paris
Posted on Thursday, September 16th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
“A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – A Small Collection of Quotes by Legendary American Author Mark Twain
Mark Twain is one of the most well-known US novelists (Twain Books). Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens. Twain was born in Missouri in November 1835. Samuel Clemens died April 1910.
Twain is most celebrated for his novels “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”.
Twain was a well-regarded writer and is still often quoted. We have collected several of his more famous quotes for your enjoyment.
The Famous Mark Twain Quotes (found here):
“Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
I’ve come loaded with statistics, for I’ve noticed that a man can’t prove anything without statistics.
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.
A man is accepted into church for what he believes–and turned out for what he knows.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy interrupting.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.
Old Man Markley [HD1080p] Paris – 15/04/2011
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