Quotes by Mark Twain

“Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Intellectual 'work' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legisl...”

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

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

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”

“Obscurity and a competencethat is the life that is best worth living.”

“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

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