Quotes

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain This old stone tower was very massive--and rather ruinous, too, for it was Roman, and four hundred years old. Yes, and handsome, after a rude fashion, and clothed with ivy from base to summit, as with a shirt of scale mail. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies?" ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain "There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare "Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day." ~ Macbeth by William Shakespeare