Quotes from Mark Twain

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.