Quote #171
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- I have found solace in profanity unexcelled even by prayer.
- I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly
- I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
- It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Every generalization is false, including this one.
- It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.