It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
From Mark Twain
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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