Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different for each… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
