Famous quotes containing the words samuel langhorne clemens, langhorne clemens, samuel langhorne and/or langhorne:
“I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn’t break my bonds.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)