"...the person that had took a bull..." - Quote by Mark Twain
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
More by Mark Twain
“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.”
“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
“We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.”
More on Experience
“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.”
“Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”
“The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.”
More on Learning
“Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.”
“Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”
“Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers.”