I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary. – Mark Twain
As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized! – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. – Mark Twain
The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881