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 against God
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
CCChapman Cohen1868–1954Pamphlet The Devil, quoted in Gordon Stein An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Prometheus Books, 1980), p. 258.I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in “Breaking the Last Taboo” (1996) by James A. Haught
