"A street in Constantinople is a picture..." - Quote by Mark Twain
A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.
More by Mark Twain
“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”
“Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.”
“By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.”
More on Travel
“I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.”
“I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.”
“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”
More on Experience
“I missed 9000 shots in my career, lost almost 300 games and missed the shot to win the game 26 times.”
“I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.”
“The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.”