Twain Quotes

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

You can go into Mark Twain`s material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we`ll likely not see another like him.

Mark Twain said `20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn`t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off your bowline. Sail away from the safe harbor.`

Mark Twain`s Roughing It is a book that many people don`t know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

Students don`t know who Mark Twain was because he wasn`t on the test.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I`m not there I carry on as usual.