"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De | Anger | 4 bookmarks

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark | Knowledge | 5 bookmarks

"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."

Twain, Mark | Ignorance | 1 bookmarks

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards."

Twain, Mark | Idiots | 4 bookmarks

"Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

Twain, Mark | Humankind | 4 bookmarks

"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark | Habit | 4 bookmarks

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark | Gratitude | 6 bookmarks

"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."

Twain, Mark | Age and Aging | 1 bookmarks

"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark | Age and Aging | 5 bookmarks

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark | Fools and Foolishness | 19 bookmarks