Quotes by Mark Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

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

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

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

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.