"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. " - Mark Twain

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." - Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places." - Mark Twain

"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." - Mark Twain

"The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education." - Mark Twain

"Whatever a man's age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole." - Mark Twain

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain

"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death." - Mark Twain