Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or avenue:
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
“Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the “blessing” of idleness and won for us the “curse” of labor.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)