Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
Mark Twain Quotes
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks – if we agree with him.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Is a person’s public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
Cast iron rules will not answer what is one man’s colon is another man’s comma.
I haven’t heard anything like that since the orphanage burned down. (when asked what he thought of an opera he’d just attended)
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still.
I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say.
When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
