Mark Twain Quotes

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

• discipline
• duty
• habit
• self improvement

Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

• virtue
• death

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

• death

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

• truth

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.

• friends
• criticism
• encouragement
• associates

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

• funny

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

• reading

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

• confidence
• success
• ignorance

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

• work
• job
• occupation