Quote

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

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
Problem
Find
Sassy
Life
Discovering
Discovery
Anybody
Vision
Teach
Tell

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
Mark Twain
Image
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Mark Twain
Image
If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.
Mark Twain
Image
The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
Mark Twain
Image
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
Image
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Image
Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
Mark Twain
Image
Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.
Mark Twain
Image
Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
Mark Twain
Image
To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain
Image
Humor is like a frog if you dissect it, it dies.
Mark Twain
Image
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
Mark Twain
Image
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
Mark Twain
Image
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
Mark Twain
Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Mark Twain
Image
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Mark Twain
Image
You can't throw too much style into a miracle.
Mark Twain
Image
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
Mark Twain
Image
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
Mark Twain
Image
To eat is human, to digest, divine
Mark Twain