The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. – Mark Twain
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed — in a modified way — 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance. – Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isnt. – Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – 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