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• It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
  -- Mark Twai...
• It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
  -- Mark Twai...
• Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)...
• There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
  -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), "Tom Sawyer Abroad...
• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer, then you find there is nothing in it.
  If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you...
• The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
  The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them....
• Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. -- Mark Twai