The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.
Mark TwainThe Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark TwainWhat work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
Mark TwainBiographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark TwainWe must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.
Mark Twain