Quotes from 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
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
- Mark Twain