Mark Twain Frozen Quotations

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!