Quotes by Mark Twain
Tremendis Learning found 9 quote/s on its database for Mark Twain.
   
1."Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching."
  
2."First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards."
  
3."Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they dont know what happened on either occasion."
  
4."All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten."
  
5."When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
  
6."I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
  
7."Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, then by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, and discover."
  
8."The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up."
  
9."There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good morals; it can destroy bad principles and re-create good ones; it can lift men to angelship."