I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. |
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. |
I was born excited. |
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. |
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said that I didn't know. |
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know." |
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one |
I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off |
I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolish |
I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world. |
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. |
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison |
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia. |
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it |
I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything |