Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
One mustn’t criticize other people on grounds where he can’t stand perpendicular himself.
Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
If there is a God, he is a malign thug.
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn’t so.
An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
I can live for two months on a good compliment.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
The good Lord didn’t create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
It is a worthy thing to fight for one’s freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man’s.
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.
I don’t see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.