Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or prize:
“I have got enough of the old masters! Brown says he has “shook” them, and I think I will shake them, too. You wander through a mile of picture galleries and stare stupidly at ghastly old nightmares done in lampblack and lightning, and listen to the ecstatic encomiums of the guides, and try to get up some enthusiasm, but it won’t come.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“...and the angels waited on him.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:13.
Of Jesus during the temptation.
“The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)