Mark Twain Avenue

Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:

    There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.”
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
    That fashioned others.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts, she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized.
    —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)