Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

~ Mark Twain

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

~ Mark Twain

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

~ Mark Twain

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

~ Mark Twain

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

~ Mark Twain

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

~ Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

~ Mark Twain

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

~ Mark Twain

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

~ Mark Twain

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

~ Mark Twain