"We are always too busy for our..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.”

“No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”

“Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.”

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

“It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.”

“When you have a child you're no longer the star of the movie.”

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.”

“You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.”