It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
Mark TwainWisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
Mark TwainI am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
Mark TwainI never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.
Mark Twain