Mark Twain Looks Quotations

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.

Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.

I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.