Quote #192
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
More from Mark Twain
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
- The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- There is nothing lower than the human race except the French.
- When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I…
- If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. (Sometimes quoted as newspapers.)
- There are no dialogues, only intersecting monologues.
- You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.