Quotes by Mark Twain

To be satisfied with what one has that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount that man isnt rich.

Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

There aint no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely custom.

To be busy is mans only happiness.

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.

We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have the man looked honest enough.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Lord save us all from ... a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.