Quotes by Twain, Mark

There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled a >>

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country unta >>

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappo >>

Quotations about Words

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than th >>

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. >>

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half >>

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark