They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Mark Twain · The Innocents Abroad (1869), ch. 19

The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain · Letter to George Bainton (October 15, 1888)

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain · Autobiography (1924), vol. I

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Mark Twain · The source reads: “I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: "All right, then, I'll go to hell."” · Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), ch. 31

More Funny Quotes

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder · The Matchmaker (1954), act I

Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.

Winston Churchill · To Minister of Agriculture, 14 June 1941 (The Second World War, vol. I, The Gathering Storm (1948))

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“They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.”

“The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”

“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man—the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

“Although rabbits are not by themselves nourishing, they are a pretty good mitigation of vegetarianism.”