Quotes from Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.
- Mark Twain
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain
The spirits of the dead hallow a house, for me.
- Mark Twain
My heart got to thumping. You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
- Mark Twain
It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
- Mark Twain
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
- Mark Twain
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
- Mark Twain
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
- Mark Twain
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
- Mark Twain
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
- Mark Twain