The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Mark Twain Quotes
Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the […]
Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there’s scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race – the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you […]
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
