It’s a great place to live, but I wouln’t want to visit there.
Mark Twain Quotes
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden.
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he […]
The average American’s simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of our selves, and how little we think of the other person.
To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
We think boys are rude, unsensitive animals but it is not so in all cases. Each boy has one or two sensitive spots, and if you can find out where they are located you have only to touch them and you can scorch him as with fire.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
There isn’t anything you can’t stand, if you are only born and bred to it.
I don’t believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don’t want to. That’s something that you just want to take on trust. It’s a classic… something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
