Twain Quotes

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

Hemingway is overrated,Twain is even more lost at sea,And all truths point to the mouth of a woman,Where both her whispers and her screams,Are born.Pour another glass, Beer, wine, whiskey,I don't care,So long as its wisdom is sharp,And it tells lies instead of promises.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.