Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
Mark TwainWe were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
Mark TwainIt is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.
Mark Twain