We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
Mark TwainThe cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. Nor upon a cold stove lid.
Mark TwainThe nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark TwainAll religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.
Mark TwainThe true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.
Mark Twain