Quote

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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
Telling
Fine
Joy
Happiness
Happy
Keep
Things
Heroic
People
Unhappy

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Mark Twain
Image
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
Mark Twain
Image
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
Mark Twain
Image
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.
Mark Twain
Image
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
Mark Twain
Image
The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
Mark Twain
Image
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
Image
The Bible is a wonderful book you can prove anything you want with it.
Mark Twain
Image
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
Mark Twain
Image
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.
Mark Twain
Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
Mark Twain
Image
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were—for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.
Mark Twain
Image
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different.
Mark Twain
Image
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain
Image
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
Mark Twain
Image
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.
Mark Twain
Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.
Mark Twain
Image
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.
Mark Twain
Image
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
Mark Twain
Image
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
Mark Twain