A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
Mark TwainLook at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
Mark TwainI thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
Mark TwainA good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
Mark TwainWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.
Mark Twain