"Human beings can be awful cruel to..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.”

“When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface”

“Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.”

“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”

“But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.”

“Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!”

“If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.”

“Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles”

“The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.”