We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. Mark Twain More Quotes by Mark Twain More Quotes From Mark Twain Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit. Mark Twain mind men civilization ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars. Mark Twain car men art It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script. Mark Twain eye men heaven The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation. Mark Twain blessing home people The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at. Mark Twain bricks support lying Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Mark Twain rags laughter blow I am not an American. I am the American. Mark Twain True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god. Mark Twain irreverence disrespect men The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Mark Twain meek earth blessed I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way. Mark Twain race together way It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not. Mark Twain care men country We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. Mark Twain mistake feelings thinking 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. Mark Twain resentment complaining thinking The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted. Mark Twain paper new-york long Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business. Mark Twain fighting business dog Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it. Mark Twain apprenticeship hard-work writing I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record. Mark Twain errands records running Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin? Mark Twain dublin baptists pain We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race. Mark Twain race success men Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. Mark Twain duration differences light
