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It's typical now for half the quotes online. So it's easier to make it "As Mark Twain famously never said, ...".

I suspect that Mark Twain would even greatly appreciate the humor in referring to it that way.

He once said he would, in fact!

;)

Is Mark Twain still alive? I heard they exaggerated his death...

See also, Winston Churchill.

It's especially instructive to call up the list of fakes from that page (it isn't directly linkable due to JS stupidity).

> Except Mark Twain never said that

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

He spent some time in Elmira, NY, back when the world was -1.5 °C colder, so he experienced worse winters.

I grew up there partially. Its a terrible place now.

According to Albert Einstein, or maybe Benjamin Franklin.

Philly area :)

Definitely Churchill.

This is a situation up with which I shall put

narrated by Morgan Freeman, probably.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, then