Logo
Quote by Mark Twain
The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

Man – a creature made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain

Category:
God
Author
Mark Twain
Read Quote

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died – Mark Twain

Category:
Funerals
Author
Mark Twain
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. – Attributed to William F. DeVault

Category:
Quotations

If you don’t quote yourself, nobody else will. And you can quote me on that. – Scott Ginsberg, www.hellomynameisscott.com

Category:
Quotations

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? – Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, 1873

Category:
Quotations

Anthologies of aphorisms are usually arranged according to themes…. This is not the best method for the aphorism, because it often has several themes and interpretations. – Markku Envall

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires

Category:
Hang in There

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless Im getting audited and Im on the street and I desperately need some dough and thats the only thing that Im getting. – Christian Bale

Category:
Romantic

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Victory

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. – Donna Tartt

Category:
funny