Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will. – Mark Twain
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. – Mark Twain
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. – Mark Twain
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. – Mark Twain
The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties. – Norman Tebbit