Mark Twain

Mark Twain

"′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read."
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"′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read."
Mark Twain
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not."
Mark Twain The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
"During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business"
Mark Twain
"Herodotus says, Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects."
Mark Twain
"I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other."
Mark Twain
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
Mark Twain
"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."
Mark Twain
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
Mark Twain
"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Mark Twain Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
Mark Twain Notebook
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Mark Twain
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain
"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."
Mark Twain
"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."
Mark Twain Notebook
"The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."
Mark Twain
"I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any."
Mark Twain
"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
Mark Twain
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain
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