One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
Mark TwainWhen it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.
Mark TwainWhat is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?
Mark TwainI have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.
Mark Twain