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• There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it. -- Mark Twai
• A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...