A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Mark Twain Quotes
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned among the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off.
I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55.
At first you have some difficulty understanding it when it is spoken, as rapidly as the orator whom I have quoted speaks it. An illustration will show what I mean. When he called, and I handed him a chair, he bowed and said.”Q” Presently, when we were lighting our cigars, he held a match to […]
But South Australia deserves much, for apparently she is a hospitable home for every alien who chooses to come; and for his religion too. Her varieties of religion indicate the presence within her borders of samples of people from pretty near every part of the globe you can think of… You see how healthy the […]
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favor at the same time. There are many asses.
Armaments were not created chiefly for the protection of the nations but for their enslavement
