Mark Twain

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

All students can learn and succeed, but not on the same day in the same way.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

There is no education like adversity.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn. Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

One of the things that make community colleges so special is they do not pick and choose their students – they work with all students.