Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:
“A classic—something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the sabbath...”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 2:27.
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“When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn’t really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.... And yet there is not a more fatal error to young lawyers than relying too much on speechmaking. If any one, upon his rare powers of speaking, shall claim an exemption from the drudgery of the law, his case is a failure in advance.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)