Quote of the Day

“You can’t get to old age by another man’s road. My vices protect me but they would assassinate you.”

• Mark Twain

When Samuel Clemens’ mother was in her 80s, Clemens asked her about his poor health as a child (he was born 2 months premature and was very sickly for the first 10 years of his life): “I suppose that during that whole time you were uneasy about me?” “Yes, the whole time,” she answered. “Afraid I wouldn’t live?” “No,” she said, “afraid you would.”