There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me – I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain Quotes
A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.
Obscurity and competence – that is the life that is best worth living.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Comedy keeps the heart sweet.
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
To a man all things are possible but one – he cannot have a hole in the seat of his breeches and keep his fingers out of it. A man does seem to feel more distress and more persistent and distracting solicitude about such a thing than he could about a sick child that was […]
Naked, what am I? A lank, skinny, spider-legged libel on the image of God! Look at the waxwork head – the face, with the expression of a melon – the projecting ears – the knotted elbows – the dished breast – the knife-edged shins – and then the feet, all beads and joints and bone-sprays, […]
What would a man be – what would any man be – without his clothes? As soon as one stops and thinks about that proposition, one realizes that without his clothes a man would be nothing at all; that the clothes do not merely make the man, the clothes are the man; that without them […]
Titles- another artificiality- are a part of clothing. They and the (clothes) conceal the wearer’s inferiority and make him seem great and a wonder, when at bottom there is nothing remarkable about him.
