Quote #180
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
More from Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him.
- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.
- Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, ca…
- Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.
- Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.