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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Burns By Mark Twain

Man — a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

The trouble is that the stupid people — who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations — do believe and are molded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper.

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain’t nothing can beat teamwork.

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

I don’t suppose there was much danger. People born to be hanged are safe in water.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love some of those. Keep it up Joe.

Anonymous said...

The greatest people have yet to be born.