"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
― Mark Twain
Topic(s):
Good
More From Mark Twain
- "Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
- "The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes."
- "Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."
More In Good
- "I’d visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon."― Larry Niven
- "If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day."― Alex Noble
- "The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other."― Ernest Hemingway