More quotes by Mark Twain

"God created war so that Americans would learn geography."
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible."