When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there – in sunny weather – stretched out at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment […]
Mark Twain Quotes
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Thirty thousand killed a million. It seems a pity that the historian let that get out; it is really a most embarrassing circumstance. (reacting to a report that thirty thousand American soldiers killed a million Filipinos)
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains – chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment – in a word, Circumstance – and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
When a man’s dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.
