Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:
“Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn’t. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line—now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It’s just a corner in pork, that’s all.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)
“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)