"When I am king they shall not..." - Quote by Mark Twain
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
More by Mark Twain
“If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.”
“Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.”
“It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.”
More on Education
“We have so many issues today that we need to confront. Comprehensive immigration reform. We have to solve the issue of poverty, the issue of hunger, the issue of war - spending billions of dollars to kill rather than to build. We have to deal with the fact that all of our children should be receiving the best possible education.”
“I wish there had been a music business 101 course I could have taken.”
“Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.”
More on Books
“The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.”
“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”