Mark Twain

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession — what there is of it.

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.