To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
Mark Twain Quotes
It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no native criminal class except Congress.
Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.
It will start in here in November and rain about four, and sometimes as much as seven days on a stretch; after that, you may loan out your umbrella for twelve months, with the serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.
There is nothing that saps one’s confidence as the knowing how to do a thing.
I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
All say, how hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
It is a talent by itself to pay compliments gracefully and have them ring true. It’s an art by itself.
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self-respect.
