Mark Twain Quotes About Mountain

• Distance lends enchantment to the view.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Wisdom, Distance

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.59, Univ of California Press

• We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Sunset, Cat

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.55, eKitap Projesi

• But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

  Mark Twain

  Insanity, Insane, Mountain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.298, Courier Corporation

• One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.337

• That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Mountain Ranges, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.177, 谷月社

• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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