Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. – Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. – Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. – Mark Twain
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early