"I never felt so fervently thankful, so..." - Quote by Mark Twain
I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.
More by Mark Twain
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
“When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.”
“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”
More on Humor
“As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.”
“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”
“Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.”
More on Death
“I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.”
“Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.”
“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”