5 Mark Twain Quotes on Behavior

Mark Twain quotes on behavior

40. Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

47. Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

74. To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

91. The pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come for had ceased to exist, they didn't do as horses or cats or angle-worms would probably have done - turn back and get at something profitable - no, anxious as they had before been to see the miraculous fountain, they were as much as forty times as anxious now to see the place where it had used to be. There is no accounting for human beings.

156. Actions speak louder than words, but not nearly as often.