The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms & Concise Opinions

The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms & Concise Opinions
by R. Kent Rasmussen

The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms & Concise Opinions
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Author: R. Kent Rasmussen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-01
ISBN: 0809229870
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Book Reviews of The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms & Concise Opinions

Book Review: Mark Twain - Timeless Book - As Important as Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this book and use it often, especially when posting quotes on my Twitter profile. I am able to properly quote Twain, providing context and date of quote, thereby getting more read for each quote.

The more I read this book, the more I realize the value of Twain's experience and his words. Although not schooled, Twain is by far one of the most educated personalities in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

His extensive travels around the world and around the US allowed him to come up with witty yet profound truths about people, life and nature, along with a plethora of other subjects, ranging from Alligators to Zeus...

A great bed time book and wonderful reference companion.

Summary of The Quotable Mark Twain: His Essential Aphorisms, Witticisms & Concise Opinions

Here are more than 1,800 quotations, organized from A-to-Z, from America's consummate author--Mark Twain. A must-have for all Twain collectors, The Quotable Mark Twain is filled with his opinions about the people he knew, the places he's been, and the books he wrote, as well as more far-ranging topics, such as writers, billiards, smoking, his family, and more. The book also includes 150 illustrations taken from the original editions of Twain's publications, source citations for each quotation, an annotated bibliography, and a complete index.


From the author of the encyclopedic Mark Twain A to Z comes Mark Twain, accident ("the greatest of all the inventors") to Zola ("The manliest man in France"). This is certainly not the first compilation of Twain witticisms. Nor is it the second or third. But of the 1,800-plus quotations included in The Quotable Mark Twain, more than half do not appear in any other collection. This is because the book's editor, R. Kent Rasmussen, is a committed Twain-ophile who has read and reread nearly everything Twain ever wrote. In these pages Rasmussen offers up Twain's trenchant and provocative words on such wide-ranging subjects as fried chicken ("the art cannot be learned north of the line of Mason and Dixon, nor anywhere in Europe"), Hinduism ("It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient"), the multiplication table ("that odious and confusing and unvanquishable and unlearnable and shameless invention"), and stealing ("It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected"). A browser's bonanza. --Jane Steinberg

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