Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:
“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”
—Bronislaw Malinowski (1884–1942)
“If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.”
—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)