Mark Twain
- Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
- Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
Occupation: American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer
Born: 1835-11-30 in Florida, Missouri
Died: April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut