Quote

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

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
Change
Unfair
Nothing
Enjoyment
Work
Motivational
Make
Inspiration
Law
Inspirational
Money
Seems

More quotes by Mark Twain

Image
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain
Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
Mark Twain
Image
Too much is just enough.
Mark Twain
Image
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
Image
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.
Mark Twain
Image
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.
Mark Twain
Image
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
Mark Twain
Image
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
Mark Twain
Image
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
Mark Twain
Image
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
Mark Twain
Image
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
Mark Twain
Image
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
Mark Twain
Image
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Mark Twain
Image
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
Mark Twain
Image
There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Mark Twain
Image
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
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
There is only one good sex. The female one.
Mark Twain
Image
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
Mark Twain
Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.
Mark Twain