2007-06-27 10:42:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
"Never let your schooling interfere with your education"
2007-06-27 13:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by Versi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."----Mark Twain, Mark Twain A Biography, Paine, 1912
"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."------Mark Twain A curious Dream (1872) 'facts concerning the Recent Resignation'
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand thier own language." -----Mark Twain
2007-06-27 10:53:30 · answer #2 · answered by DaveSFV 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are SO many good ones, but I only have one, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
2007-06-27 11:10:55 · answer #3 · answered by rowlfe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.
2007-06-30 17:26:17 · answer #4 · answered by KColette 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I find that we have not evolved but degenerated, from some far ancestor, - some microscopic atom, insect by insect, animal by animal, reptile by reptile, till we have reached the bottom stage of development - the human being. Below us is nothing. Nothing but the Frenchman."
2007-06-27 18:24:22 · answer #5 · answered by trail guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"It is better to keep your mouth shut, and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt."
2007-06-27 12:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋