Brent

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
― Mark Twain

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier