Mark Twain Prize

Famous quotes containing the words mark twain, mark, twain and/or prize:

    “I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:11.

    Jesus.

    “All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth—including America, of course—consist of pilferings from other people’s wash.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
    From mine own library with volumes that
    I prize above my dukedom.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)