When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.
Mark TwainI am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
Mark TwainThe happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
Mark TwainVery well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!
Mark Twain