Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:
“To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“...they look like trees, walking.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 8:24.
A man partially healed of blindness commenting on what he sees.
“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)