Mark Twain Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910
Birthday: November 30
Death: April 21
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.
source: Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin
topic: War, Home, Fighting, Cannons, Napoleonic
