Quote

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Best
Fetish
Self
Idols
Loyalty
Independence
General
Single
Principles
Fetishes
Often
Disloyalty

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
Mark Twain
Image
And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Mark Twain
Image
When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.
Mark Twain
Image
Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
Mark Twain
Image
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
Mark Twain
Image
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
Mark Twain
Image
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
Mark Twain
Image
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
Mark Twain
Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
Mark Twain
Image
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
Mark Twain
Image
The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.
Mark Twain
Image
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
Mark Twain
Image
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark Twain
Image
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
Mark Twain
Image
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
Mark Twain
Image
There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.
Mark Twain
Image
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
Mark Twain
Image
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Mark Twain
Image
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
Mark Twain
Image
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.
Mark Twain