The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
What a wee little part of a persons life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mark Twain
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. – Edgar Allan Poe