Famous quotes containing the words samuel langhorne clemens, langhorne clemens, samuel langhorne, samuel and/or langhorne:
“As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie—could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents’ Club”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“...be men and fight.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 4:9.
“I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)