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Mark Twain 637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.
Attributed
“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”
Source: Invincible
Blade of the Immortal, Volume 1: Blood of a Thousand
“Only the good die young, so I’m destined to be immortal, I guess.”
Source: Fire with Fire (2013), Chapter 16 (p. 206)
“Fairness doesn't govern life and death. If it did, no good man would ever die young.”
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Dawkins has stated on many occasions that this passage will be read at his funeral.
Unweaving the Rainbow (1998)
Context: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
“You've got to be lucky to pitch a no-hitter, and if you have good stuff, it's easier to be lucky.”
Speaking on July 1, 1990, at Chavez Ravine, in reference to a no-hitter thrown there just two days before by the Dodgers' Fernando Valuenzela (and, coincidentally, just hours before the Yankees' Andy Hawkins would, thanks to three 8th-inning Bomber miscues, famously record a 4-0, complete-game loss to Chicago, despite giving up no hits ); as quoted in "Notes on a Scorecard" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-02-sp-474-story.html by Allan Malamud, in The Los Angeles Times (July 2, 1990)