"It is a wise child that knows..." - Quote by Mark Twain
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
More by Mark Twain
“When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”
“I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.”
“I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education”
More on Family
“A marriage without children is the world without the sun.”
“I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.”
“I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into.”
More on Childhood
“In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.”
“When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!"”
“I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.”