"We are chameleons, and our partialities and..." - Quote by Mark Twain
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
More by Mark Twain
“Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.”
“The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.”
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.”
More on Human Nature
“But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.”
“War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.”
“If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!”
More on Change
“Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings”
“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
“Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one”