If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
Tag: Mark Twain
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.