"It is not best to use our..." - Quote by Mark Twain
It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.
More by Mark Twain
“The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.”
“Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.”
“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.”
More on Morality
“So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, "Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!"”
More on Hypocrisy
“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”
“They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.”