We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. – Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isnt. – Mark Twain
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain