| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 576 |
| AUTHOR: | Mark Twain (1835–1910) |
| QUOTATION: | We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens), Following the Equator, vol. 1 (vol. 5 of The Writings of Mark Twain), chapter 11, epigraph, p. 125 (1897, reprinted 1968). |
| SUBJECTS: | Experience |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Twain Collection | | |
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