"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." ― Mark Twain Topic(s): Experience Tags: carries More From Mark Twain "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." "I can live for two months on a good compliment." More In Experience "I’ve grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don’t know that I’ll ever see again and it’s been a great, great experience."― Matt LeBlanc "I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know."― Jean Houston "Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice."― Harry S. Truman