"Never learn to do anything: if you..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
More by Mark Twain
“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.”
“You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.”
“Honor is a harder master than the law.”
More on Laziness
“Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.”
“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”
“The millionaire says to a thousand people, 'I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.' Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn't that incredible? Why wouldn't everyone get the book?!”