in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all, the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
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What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.
from the book "" by Mark Twain
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
But the truth is, that when a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it.
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Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
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From the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.)
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