Logo
Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down i

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Conformity
category

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. – Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

Category:
Conformity

My theory is that the hardest work anyone does in life is to appear normal. – From the movie Ed TV

Category:
Conformity

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors. – William Faulkner

Category:
Conformity

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. – Clarence Darrow

Category:
Conformity

Random Quotes

Mr. Gonzales failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General. – Daniel Inouye

Category:
Failure

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad. – Bobby Knight

Category:
Change

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America. – Dennis Cardoza

Category:
Leadership

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You cant have too many friends because then youre just not really friends. – Truman Capote

Category:
Friendship