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Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:

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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson

In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
- quoted in The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass

 

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