Quotes from Mark Twain
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.
- Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonely.
- Mark Twain
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Mark Twain
Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
- Mark Twain
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
- Mark Twain
Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
- Mark Twain
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
- Mark Twain
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
- Mark Twain
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
- Mark Twain
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
- Mark Twain
You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.
- Mark Twain
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
- Mark Twain