Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
Mark TwainHain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark TwainHeroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
Mark TwainBeing made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
Mark TwainMan has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.
Mark Twain