When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
Mark TwainTo do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark TwainNothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain