Mark Twain ( 10 of 310 )
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the read more
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not read more
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner read more
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it read more
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand read more
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Chastity - you can carry it too far
Chastity - you can carry it too far
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
