It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain Quotes
It was human – quite distinctly human. It is not pleasant to hear you libel the higher animals by attributing to them dispositions which they are free from, and which are found nowhere but the human heart. None of the higher animals is tainted with the disease called the Moral Sense. Purify your language Seppi; […]
When angry count four, when very angry, swear!
But we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and we glorious Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when we get a fair start.
This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as “Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few-few-are they that enter in thereat” has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don’t brag of this and certainly it […]
We couldn’t buy them (Philippines) off the real owners, who wouldn’t sell; we had to buy them off somebody, to try to cover up the obtrusive fact that the Administration’s seizure of them was theft. Let Europe sneer at the juvenility of the trick if she likes, it is nothing to us; it is not […]
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
We Americans have played the European game. America, has now become what the European “civilizing powers” had long been – a figure with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
