"In other localities certain places in the..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.”

“He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.”

“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”

“Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.”

“I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.”

“The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.”

“I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”

“Just sick enough to be totally confident”

“Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car."”