Quote #168
France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Every generalization is false, including this one.
- I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- I have found solace in profanity unexcelled even by prayer.
- America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.
- I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly