"Why waste your money looking up your..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”

“There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”

“The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.”

“Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.”

“All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.”

“The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.”

“With children Love is spelled TIME.”

“There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.”

“Children make you want to start life over.”