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The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.more Art Spander quotes |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God said 'Let there be light,' and there was still nothing, but you could see it.more Dave Thomas quotes |
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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.more Mark Twain quotes |
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.more Mark Twain quotes |
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.more Mark Twain quotes |
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.more Mark Twain quotes |
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.more Mark Twain quotes |
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.more Mark Twain quotes |
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.more Mark Twain quotes |
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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.more Mark Twain quotes |
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.more Mark Twain quotes |
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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.more Mark Twain quotes |
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.more Mark Twain quotes |
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.more Mark Twain quotes |
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Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.more Mark Twain quotes |
I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.more Mark Twain quotes |
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.more Mark Twain quotes |
Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the custom of lying has suffered any decay or interruption -- no, for the Lie, as Virtue, as Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and cannot perish from the earth while this club remains.
My complaint, simply concerns the decay of the art of lying. No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. ... If this finest of the fine art arts had everywhere received the attention, encouragement, and conscientious practice and development which this club has devoted to it, I should not need to utter this lament, or cry a single tear. I do not say this to flatter. I say it in a spirit of just and appreciative recognition.more Mark Twain quotes |
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.more Unknown quotes |
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America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.more Unknown quotes |
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.more Unknown quotes |
