Mark Twain

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Mark Twain

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

Mark Twain

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Mark Twain

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Mark Twain

Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

Mark Twain

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Mark Twain

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

Mark Twain

Behind every successful man, there is a woman – And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

Mark Twain

Being rich ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. It’s just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain