Laughter is the Best Weapon
I just heard this quote on Good Morning America as they are discussing how Hilary Clinton laughs to disarm her critics and opponents:
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. Mark Twain.
Good old Mark Twain! That cagey old cynic said some great things. I found this wonderful web page: Brainy Quotes: Mark Twain
Here are some that I just love. Take a look and see what YOU like.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
We have the best government that money can buy.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured” This is mine π
I Agree with you.. What a cheap effective weapon
Samuel Clemens “Mark Twain”, American author and humorist (1835-1910).
One of the best writers and thinkers America has offered. i do like to read his words,, you posted some very nice quotes.. I would like to add some qoutes of his, that involve his religous beliefs :
“Faith is believing something you know ainβt true.”
“If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.”
“It (the Bible) is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.”
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
“Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness… It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light β¦ by contrast.”
“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious — unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.”
“If there is a God, he is a malign thug.”
“‘In God We Trust.’ I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true.”
“It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.”
“Man is a marvelous curiosity . . . he thinks he is the Creator’s pet . . . he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn’t it a quaint idea.” [Letters from the Earth]
Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
From….
http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm
I love Mark Twain! he once said “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt” :p
so witty!
Chikapappi – Anger can be managed, habeebti. You can do this. I know you have been thinking about it.
Chroma – And a quick diffuser in a difficult situation, if it is handled with a light touch!
Whoa! Abdulaziz – quotes from Letters from the Earth, his most scorchingly cynical book of all! When you read Twain, or at least when I read Twain, I get the feeling I get with many athiest/agnostics – that underneath the cynicism is a believer who has been whalloped a time or two. Many of them have more faith than the more superficial “believers”, but they are too afraid to believe.
Swair – That one makes me LOL too! π