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
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.
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.
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.
