Sample Essays & Free Papers For You

A reliable academic resource for high school and college students.
Essay database with free papers will provide you with original and creative ideas.

Quotations

It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. SwiftPapers now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

Browse Authors

(Click a letter to view the authors)
A B C D E F G H I J K L
M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Mark Twain Quotes

«The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.»
«While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.»
«A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it»
«Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.»
«No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances»
«Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.»
«Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Mind
«Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Kindness | Keywords: blind, deaf, deaf to, The Blind
«The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all»
«Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.»