Quotes from Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Definition of a classic something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.