WIT AND WISDOM.

Shannon News, 4 December 1928, Page 4

WIT AND WISDOM.

MARK TWAIN’S EVERGREEN

HUMOTO.

The Mark Twain Association of New York offered a prize for the best questions from Mark Twain’s books, the bjoet being to help the reading public to jrealize that humour and the comic spirit need study and meditation as'well as poetry necdjs study and meditation. The following, quotations, among others wore, submitted: Whenever the literary German dives into a, sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the . other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

We have -a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every •lay who don’t. know anything and can ’-t read. v

If yon are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to.--go to sleep When you ain’t sleepy—if you are any. wberes where it won’t, do- for you to scratch, why you will itch all over' in upward of a thousand places. Oftenrit seems such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s God.

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. Training is everything. , The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education. ' Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Human pride is not worth while; there is always somtettying flying ifH wait to take the wind out of it.

So sure of victory at last is the cour age that can wait;