Mark Twain Quotes
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
Ha-Joon Chang
Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
Gamaliel Bailey
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
Karl Kraus
I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
Cara Delevingne
My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
Malala Yousafzai
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Fernando Pessoa
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Gail Sheehy
The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.'
Peter Maurer
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Ted Rall
Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.
Jacob Weisberg
A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
Christopher Hitchens
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
