The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Mark TwainIf you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark TwainGiving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark TwainWill a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at themโand by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weaponโlaughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,โpush it a littleโ crowd it a littleโweaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
Mark Twain