Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.
More Quotes from Mark Twain:
None of us had ever been anywhere before we all hailed from the interior travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - AmericansMark Twain
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with
Mark Twain
Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Mark Twain
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
Mark Twain
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Language Quotes, Man Quotes, Music Quotes, Poker Playing QuotesBased on Keywords: acquirement, paralysis
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
Daniel Clowes
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven
The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
Adrian Edmondson