My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.


Mark Twain

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My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water
MARK TWAIN
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN
My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN
his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine
E.E. CUMMINGS
Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.
HOWARD G. GOLDBERG
Sometimes words are like water and lips as strong as wine.
DAVE GUERRERO
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,
BILL BRADLEY
There's always that oil and water thing going on, ... You don't know if people are going to congeal....
DAVE MUSTAINE
[March 25 -] Songs and Stories for Everybody ... the Mark Twain of contemporary kids' music.
BILL HARLEY
Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like J...
MANU JOSEPH
Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
Don't drink the water. We have no idea what's in the water. Do not drink the water. We are working f...
JOE SPRAGGINS
I still think Nancy does most of his talking; you'll notice that she never drinks water when Ronnie ...
ROBIN WILLIAMS
There's a noticeable shift away from carbonated drink consumption and toward bottled water and healt...
DEBBIE WANG
Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!
UNKNOWN
We expect that 2005 was the high-water mark. Interest rate levels are the key factor.
GREGORY KLUMP
Great is the benefit of booklearning; for through books we are instructed and inducted into the path...
THE PRIMARY CHRONICLE
You see those bodies in the water? Those are my people. That's me. That's my life. It just can't be ...
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream bo...
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In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll li...
DICK VAN DYKE
Water for oxen, wine for kings.
PROVERB
Mark Twain.
FRIENDS
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should h...
BRIAN CLOUGH
It really concentrates the ducks in areas where there is water. So for those who have water it's gre...
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At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.
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We are like oil and water, but all my other relationships are like oil and vinegar! Delicious!
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Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l...
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Wine is sunlight, held together by water!
GALILEO GALILEI
A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times: in water, in butter, and in wine
PROVERB
Sex sells, and those are great marketing, great advertising. There's no regulation of things like dr...
JUDITH SILVERSTEIN
Hey, my love, you came to me like wine comes to the mouth grown tired of water all the time You quen...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
If you look at a stream or river and close your eyes it will be amazing the flow of ideas that will ...
GARY F EVANS...
A woman ran out of the water screaming, my baby, my baby. Everybody got scared.
HENRY NUNEZ
In my opinion, wounds are like water boiled--they heal best left unwatched.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS
When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD
The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
A glass of water with peace is better than several glasses of wine with trouble. Here's a glass of w...
CONSTANCE FRIDAY
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]
GERARD WAY
These are long-standing, serious violations of the Clean Water Act which are causing great harm to s...
GLEN SPAIN
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dealers are very concerned these affected vehicles could enter the used-car market. Fortunately, the...
JACK KAIN
Dealers are very concerned these affected vehicles could enter the used car market. Fortunately, the...
JACK KAIN
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which ar...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave ...
RIGOBERTA MENCHU
Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water, these three are one
JOSEPH DARE
Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, ...
RICHARD CRASHAW
But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
MARK TWAIN
If it wasn't for the Mark Twain Masquers, I don't know where my life would have gone.
PETER FALK
For those who need it (water and sewer), it's great.
JUDI NELSON
I drink red wine on ice to water it down.
DIANE KEATON
There are two types of people I have seen : those who fish and those who only disturb the water.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gon...
EMILY BRONTE
The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.
KEN MACLEOD
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.
GREEK PROVERB
I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example -...
DEYTH BANGER
Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER
Those are areas where the people were probably asleep when the water rushed in.
CHARLES HOOD
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you...
MARK TWAIN
I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying...
HELEN KELLER
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the wh...
MARK TWAIN
A soul is a water changing its freshness and depth according to the soul that drinks it.
MARIANA FULGER
In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
FRENCH PROVERB
We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 196...
PAUL WATSON
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
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A major concern is stock water, particularly in the Flint Hills - almost all that stock water is fro...
GARY KILGORE
Water really does great things for my skin.
JACKEE HARRY
If any man hates me,he is the luckiest person in the world,because I always pray for my enemies.
JOSEPH BOAZ
In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another
FRENCH PROVERB
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they ha...
EMILY BRONTE
It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready f...
ALICE MCDERMOTT
I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
MARK TWAIN
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
Creeks and ponds are great, as long as they have water in them,
THOMAS MURPHY
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
ERIC HOFFER
The pumping is working well, people are conserving water and we shouldn't run out of water.
BULLER MAYOR MARTIN SAWYERS
You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When ...
BRUCE LEE
and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair ...
AIMEE BENDER
Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo...
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All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flank...
KIRAN DESAI
When preparing the regular menu, you consider the wine. With the bar menu, you have mixed drinks. Th...
JASON GOULD
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say th...
PAUL THEROUX
A visit to this country by President Clinton is the high water mark.
NELSON MANDELA
Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These ...
DENIS PARSONS BURKITT
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE
Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that...
J. D. HAYWORTH
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
BIBLE
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
ANATOLE FRANCE
The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
clear, transparent, pure.
The great wisdom is l...
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
MARK TWAIN