Maybe everyone should help generate a list of their favorite Twainisms…because his wisdom and humor were legendary. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but here’s a pithy little number:
and i deliberately avoided the awesome twainography on mormonism. fwiw, he has an interesting (and short) summary of his unusual position on one of the “twin evils” of the mid-19th c. (the other was slavery) here, for anyone interested: http://www.twainquotes.Mormonism.html
Maybe everyone should help generate a list of their favorite Twainisms…because his wisdom and humor were legendary. It’s hard for me to pick a favorite but here’s a pithy little number:
“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.”
“Chloroform in print” – god i know, it’s a mormon reference. sorry.
it is funny though. great idea KS. (hailing from the great state of Missouri!)
and i deliberately avoided the awesome twainography on mormonism. fwiw, he has an interesting (and short) summary of his unusual position on one of the “twin evils” of the mid-19th c. (the other was slavery) here, for anyone interested: http://www.twainquotes.Mormonism.html
That’s “twin evils of bararism, slavery and polygamy.”
I’ve always been partial to his essay, “The Awful German Language”.
Speaking a little of the Deutschsprache myself, it’s easy to recognize how accurately he portrays its little (or somewhat bigger) quirks.