"Man can seldom - very, very, seldom..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”

“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.”

“When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.”

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.”

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”

“Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.”

“I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.”

“I do squats until I fall over and pass out. So what? It’s not going to kill me. I wake up five minutes later and I’m OK”

“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”