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• Life would be infinitely happier if could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• It [the Bible] is full of interest. It has noble poetry in i
  and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...
• Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to ma
  he invented them. Among higher animals there is no trace of them....
• When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• T'was a brave person indeed, who first ate an oyster. -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)
• There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910)...
• No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. -- Samuel Goldwy
• Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
  -- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) -- Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame....