...happened before our ambassador to Libya and three others were killed by terrorists.Keith HansenNewspapersThe old saw says, "Let sleeping dogs lie." Right. Still when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.Mark Twain

...bill, as expected, there will be wholesale changes. Keith HansenMarriageMen and women ? even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.Mark Twain

...support gay marriage or vote him out of office. That's certainly the way most elected officials are evaluated.Keith HansenElectionsIf we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.Mark Twain

...state's chief executive and the throng of media that will follow him to our beautiful bit of paradise.Keith HansenFishingDo not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.Mark Twain

...these "icebergs" at night might be difficult if not impossible.Be safe out there and good luck.Keith HansenFishingDo not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.Mark Twain

...Mighty Mississippi. It is a river of which legends were spun. It's Mark Twain's river.Perhaps one of the most interesting stretches along the nation's...people say of us, of course we ignore the finest part of the Mississippi.Mark Twain

...many ways. Sam Clemens wrote about life on the river using the pen name Mark Twain. I believe there are some stories that were lived out by residents of...its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...Mark Twain

...gabble, gabbling threadbare platitudes and 'give-me-liberty-or give-me-death' buncombe from morning to night, and the other asleep, with his slab-soled brogans set up like a couple of grave-stones on the top of his desk.Mark Twain

...Winter The captain had been telling how, in one of his Arctic voyages, it was so cold that the mate's shadow froze fast to the deck and had to be ripped loose by main strength. And even then he got only about two-thirds of it back.Mark Twain

...laws to include either protection.Keith HansenPeace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.Mark Twain