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 food
You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates470–399 BCPlutarch Moralia, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry
