The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.
Mark TwainThere is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
Mark TwainCan it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
Mark TwainDon't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
Mark Twain