Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?


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When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain
STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD
This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side.
CLAUDE MCDONALD
We were longing for a church on our side of town,
BRIAN WELLS
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
ALISON GOPNIK
There are policy implications in any state that hands out money based on town income. We need better...
WAYNE VILLEMEZ
People in town don't want all these people coming through our town.
DOLORES VILLARREAL
I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI
It's on the right side of town.
ART SLUSARK
This town isn't big enough for both of us.
MARK SCHMIDT
First of all, this is a North Side town. You don't get a lot of respect on the South Side.
DOMINIC PACYGA
We need to build a new majority, working town by town, barrio by barrio, house to house. This is a h...
JULIO BORGES
People who work in this town want to work with other people who work in this town. Our operators kno...
GAETAN TAMO
Tulsa was the kind of place where you could go to any door and borrow a cup of sugar. Everybody knew...
CHARLIE WILSON
We were looking for a town-center concept. There isn't a whole lot to choose from with Gulf access a...
DARIN SMITH
Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.
VAL KILMER
We've got some offers here in town, ... Our feelers are out.
LOU STYLES
We haven?t hit any stumbling blocks at all. We are hopeful the town will support us. We think we?re ...
ED JACKSON
We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON
We've got a fly, a wasp and a nematode all going to town on mole crickets.
J. HOWARD FRANK
I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan...
ED SPELEERS
The government has basically chased away all the people in that town. Golo is a ghost town. Everybod...
GEMMO LODESANI
I hope that the Senate passes the extension. In any small town, it's a huge difference to keep peopl...
CHARLIE GOOD
We need to level [The Town Center's] growth, keep it in control and focus on our neighborhoods.
BRIGITTA MULLICAN
I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumo...
GEORGE JONES
The whole idea of setting up a Catholics-only town or any religious town in a pluralistic society is...
FRANCES KISSLING
One of the big factors was one of the largest conventions in town is not in town. Those folks used t...
INGRID REISMAN
They sold 1,000 tickets, and we only have 3,000 people in the town. So it means a third of our town-...
KRISTY WALKER
We'd like to see everyone who works for the town or works in town in our audience on Wednesday eveni...
DONNA BURKE
Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS
To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
CHRIS DONLAY
Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
DENIS E. BROGAN
It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in th...
JACK ROBERTS
Mark Twain.
FRIENDS
You can be on one side of town in a metro area, and it would take you more than 48 minutes to get fr...
FRED OIEN
I live in a small town, but I have big ideas!
RUSSELL MORTON ROUX
The town is deteriorating more and more all the time, and our infrastructure is falling apart. But i...
DIANE WATSON
I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.
JOHN LEE HANCOCK
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighb...
KARIN SLAUGHTER
Every boat show is not like that. There's the other boat shows that come to town and they bring in a...
LEN JORDAN
All eight kids are legitimate varsity candidates. On any other team in town, they would be vying for...
CAL HUBBARD
No other state is asking for this. One state could effectively undermine the entire federal moratori...
MICHAEL TOWN
Offshore drilling could turn our beaches and coastal waters into an industrial zone. Rather than auc...
MIKE TOWN
From an environmental perspective, we should be responsible for our own waste.
MICHAEL TOWN
We still have concerns that this legislation could lead to hot spots of mercury pollution in the sta...
MIKE TOWN
Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's v...
WILBUR SMITH
This is coming from me, not the town board. I got concerned when I saw an ABC flier in town.
EVELYN CHIARITO
I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
RUTH RENDELL
She’d rather be anonymous in a big city than infamous in a small town.
LORELEI JAMES
And thus, We did not send before you any warner in a town, but those who led easy lives in it said: ...
QURAN
We want to be in your town. We need to be a part of your town,
DENNIS PHILLIPS
It's not an effort or initiative I feel is necessary, nor do the majority of people in town.
HENRY LEGER
A person in this town has got to be especially conscious that they're around.
JIM JOHNSON
We need to be sensitive to the businesses in town, but the amount of revenue recreation brings into ...
DALE URIE
Most folks don't have but a few days to a week's worth of food in their houses at any given time. Wh...
EDWARD M. WOLFE
There are certain areas where the rental market is being totally depleted. I would venture to say th...
STEVE WOLFSON
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have ...
MARTHA REEVES
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'l...
DICK VAN DYKE
We're regulating ourselves out of the quiet enjoyment of our community. If we can't find a way to do...
SHELDON THAYER
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
RON GARAN
The T will respect the vote of the Town Meeting. They have asked us not to take any action on the ra...
JOE PESATURO
We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with...
AARON ADAMS
It was our first date. There was a carnival in town, and we went on the ferris wheel. I knew right t...
LEONE KRUTSINGER
This is just a red flag that says we in Newfane notice. All I can do at this moment is do something ...
DAN DEWALT
You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college. And that ...
JOE WILLS
You got a small-town charming feel, plus you got a little sophistication with the college, ... And t...
JOE WILLS
When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on...
MELISSA ETHERIDGE
There was a road running along the west side of our lot. But the town of Frisco hadn't put in the st...
MARIE ZDECHLIK
Tom's probably the second-highest ranking guy in town right now. Seriously, though, he does a great ...
LARRY WATKINS
I read in a story in Bicycling Magazine that said that if you live in a town that's 10 miles in radi...
DAVE ROGERS
a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE
We have a whole new group of people that moved into town and they're quite interested in the town. I...
DARELL WEGERT
Our repairmen are the loneliest guys in town.
MAYTAG APPLIANCES
There are a lot of issues in town right now that we could be working on.
ART GALLAGHER
San Francisco has a flowers-in-your-hair kind of vibe, while Chicago's got this very funny, big-city...
DAVE MATTHEWS
We've never had anything like this on this side of town, and it was just time.
HEATHER CLARKE
If you look at the demographics, we've got as good a population as any part of town.
HAROLD SATER
Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes,
LEE IACOCCA
Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're just kind of a sideshow.
CLAUDIO REYNA
It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behi...
MADCHEN AMICK
It's all heart. There's not a lot in our town so the school is what we have. The girls are tremendou...
CAROL FLETCHER
Then in town let me live, and in town let me die For I own I can't relish the country, not I. ...
CHARLES MORRIS
It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season....
JOAN DIDION
We want to have two major bowl games in town. And it's been the luck of this town that we've had hig...
BRUCE BINKOWSKI
I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putt...
KACEY MUSGRAVES
We don't want those who are illegal seeking residency in our town.
JOHN MILLER
I'm excited to get people around town interested in getting back into this tradition. And maybe some...
CRAIG THRESHIE
We used to be the little town that could and now we're the little town that won't.
SHELDON THAYER
Traditionally, when Michigan comes to town, it's a pretty big event in East Lansing.
JOE BELL
It's very, very distinct to any other place in town.
BILL RHODES
Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who w...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
No one came in (to the fellowship hall on Tuesday) with a political agenda. That's not what we're ab...
HOWARD CUMMINS
We've had quite a bit of rain and flooding. The water got all the way up to our porch, and a few peo...
DONNA BROWN
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain
TONY-PAUL DE VISSAGE
We don't have anything but residential and churches and institutional. There aren't any businesses i...
CAROLYN WICKERT
This initiative will ensure that all town residents with disabilities will be included in our emerge...
BARBARA CARPENTER
There's no room for error. We are looking at facilities in this town and we may be looking at a bond...
FRED BRADLEY
In looking for our historic town square, we scouted in a lot of states. We found a lot of beautiful ...
DANIELLE RENFREW

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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
MARK TWAIN
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Trut...
MARK TWAIN
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN
If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
MARK TWAIN
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
MARK TWAIN
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it ...
MARK TWAIN
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
MARK TWAIN