Mark Twain Quotes

“Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:pain

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:stupidity education

“It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:nature peace dream

“Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:change

“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved”

― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

topic:education books mind

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

topic:education

“The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.”

― Mark Twain, Roughing It

topic:government

“there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:government

“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

topic:society

“Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:work

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