Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:
“I have at last, after several months’ experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert—a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“You give them something to eat.””
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 6:37.
Jesus to the apostles after they tried to get Jesus to feed the crowd.
“Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man, he has struck bottom, I reckon; there is no lower deep for him.”
—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)