To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Quotes you may like!
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Always do right–this will gratify some and astonish the rest. message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901 ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates–1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don’t know what happened on either occasion. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
