Some Twain utterances (below)
Be good or you will be lonesome . Mark Twain
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain, a Biography
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Notebook, 1894
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out
of
a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market
is just
right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much
oftener than
they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine
them;
but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a
compliment that
is three-fourths base metal; she will not even bite it to see if it is
good;
all she notices is the size of it, not the quality.
- "Hellfire Hotchkiss," reprinted in Satires and Burlesques
Comments