Quote

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Mark Twain

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mark Twain
Age: 74 †
Born: 1835
Born: November 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 21
Aphorist
Author
Autobiographer
Humorist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Teacher
Florida
Missouri
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel L. Clemens
Samuel Clemens
Motivation
Emotional
Emotion
Feelings
Involuntary
Sincere
Integrity

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
Mark Twain
Image
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
Image
It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion.
Mark Twain
Image
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, Where is the best place to go to? He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.
Mark Twain
Image
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.
Mark Twain
Image
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
Mark Twain
Image
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Image
Homely truth is unpalatable.
Mark Twain
Image
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
Mark Twain
Image
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
Mark Twain
Image
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. (In God we Trust) is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
Mark Twain
Image
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.
Mark Twain
Image
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain
Image
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.
Mark Twain
Image
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
Mark Twain
Image
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
Mark Twain
Image
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
Mark Twain
Image
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
Mark Twain
Image
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity but bet on the other one -- this is business.
Mark Twain
Image
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
Mark Twain