Mark Twain Quotes on Change

9 quotes

  1. Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.

  2. A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

  3. One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

  4. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

  5. In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

  6. Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

  7. Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

  8. Tomorrow is the yesterday of two days from now.

  9. Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

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