One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
Definite speech means clarity of mind.
You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
And I urge upon you this – which I think is wisdom – if you find you can’t make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don’t you go.
Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.
God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all – they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me – and this adverb plague is one of them.
If you can’t stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.
I’m the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
Perfect grammar – persistent, continuous, sustained – is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.
That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.
We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time – and hardly that, in my case.