Quotes by Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

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.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.