Quotes About Samuel Clemens

#1. The right to evaluate risk for oneself is part of what it means to be a functioning human being.

Mark Steyn

#2. If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be
a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist

George Washington

#3. Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.

John Avanzini

#4. In the fall of 1887, Ed Curtis and his father arrived in the Puget Sound area, which was opening up to land opportunists after treaties had removed most of the Indian, and all of the British, claims to the region.

Timothy Egan

#5. This was, after all, an army whose cause was inextricably bound up with the defense of black enslavement.

Allen C. Guelzo

#6. You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

Leonard Ravenhill

#7. CORV: Honour! tut, a breath: There's no such thing, in nature: a mere term Invented to awe fools.

Ben Jonson

#8. It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt.

Samuel Clemens

#9. Some people scorn a cat and think it not an essential; but the Clemens tribe are not of these.

Mark Twain

#10. She tasted of coffee and day old poetry.

R. YS Perez

#11. My parents were really nice to me.

Bryan Callen

#12. If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

Chalene Johnson

#13. Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Vint Cerf

#14. There was no apology in her eyes, no love or caring. But she saw me, I existed, and this lifted the beams off my shoulders. It takes so little.

Miranda July

#15. I don't think we've been introduced," I said. "My name's Zara. I'm strong, I'm fast, and I totally kick ass. It's great to be me ... but that means right now it sucks to be you.

Skyla Dawn Cameron

#16. If you think you're smart,
think twice to be smarter.

Toba Beta

#17. No one saves an e-mail, because it's so inherently impersonal. I worry about posterity in general. All the great love letters - from Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre, from Samuel Clemens to his wife, Olivia - I don't know, I always think about what will be lost -

Gillian Flynn

#18. Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens has been quoted as saying he thought the Book of Mormon was "chloroform in print". For

Park B. Romney