More from Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
More about humor
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act VAnalyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White1899–1985“Some Remarks on Humor,” preface to A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941)
