Mark Twain
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
“With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn’t think possible in today’s world. They have created a land of make-believe that’s worse than regular life.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.”
“An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.”
“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.”
“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”