Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Nine More Mark Twain Quotes



The Public is merely a multiplied "me."

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

from the miniature edition of  THE WIT AND WISDOM OF MARK TWAIN 

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