Quote of Mark Twain - My books are like water; those...
Biography - Mark Twain:
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer.
Born: 1835 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1835 - Died: 1910
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Quotes about wine:
Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Quotes for: book
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Quotes about water:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Quotes for: genius
He recognized in himself that power to forget which only children have, and geniuses, and the innocent. Innocent, overwhelmed by joy, he understood at last that he was made for happiness.
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