Quotes by Twain, Mark

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your >>

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody >>

I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an o >>

Quotations about Trials

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what >>

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Wou >>

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. >>

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Twain, Mark