You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
Mark TwainWe are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
Mark TwainYou can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
Mark TwainMy own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Mark Twain