Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.
Mark TwainIt's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you wantโoh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
Mark TwainSuppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark TwainDoes the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
Mark Twain