Mark Twain1835–1910I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 7- License of the Press (1873).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
Papers of the Adam Family (1939) (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, ChartwellLet us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 28.Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
- “The Chronicle of Young Satan” (ca. 1897–1900, unfinished), published posthumously in Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts (1969), ed. William Merriam Gibson (pp. 165–166 in the 2005 paperback printing, )
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
