Business Quote # 14

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

By Mark Twain

Success Quote # 13

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance
like nobody is watching.

By Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quote # 12

As to the Adjective: When in doubt, strike it out.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain Quote # 11

...the ordinary run of newspaper criticism will not do to depend upon....Pay no attention to the papers, but watch the audience.
- "Answers to Correspondents," Californian, 7/1/1865

Mark Twain Quote # 10

...the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain Quote # 9

It is always the way; words will answer as long as it is only a person's neighbor who is in trouble, but when that person gets into trouble himself, it is time that the King rise up and do something.
- Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc

Mark Twain Quote # 8

To spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is wages earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you naked and bankrupt.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

Mark Twain Quote # 7

You see I don't care much about acquaintances. When I can come & go, & not be misunderstood, & can be at liberty & unweighted, uncriticized, unsuspected, as part of the very household, as at your house & Mrs.Fairbanks's my "friendship" (as we term it) really comes nearer being worship than anything else I can liken it to but to be a ceremonious visitor; a person of set hours & seasons; a foreigner in the household, without naturalization papers; an alien from whose ears the language of the fireside is withheld; an effigy to poke politenesses at & offend with affabilities that are hollow, invitations that are not meant, & complementary lies that are as thin & perishable as the air they are made of--this is Acquaintanceship, & very little of it goes a great way with me.
- Letter to Olivia Langdon, 3/6/1869

Mark Twain Quote # 6

When we do not know a person--and also when we do--we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business--there is no other way.
- Christian Science

Mark Twain Quote # 5

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
- "The Refuge of the Derelicts" published in Fables of Man

Mark Twain Quote # 4

As concerns this question, our inspired Founder instructs us that the fealty due from the Ultimate in connection with and subjection to the intermediate and the inferential, these being of necessity subordinate to the Auto-Isothermal, and limited subliminally by this contact, which is in all cases sporadic and incandescent, those that ascend to the Abode of the Blest are assimilated in thought and action by the objective influence of the truth which sets us free, otherwise they could not." .....It was just a snow-flurry on a warm day: every flake was distinct and perfect, but they melted before you could grab enough to make a ball out of them.
- "Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes"

By Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quote # 3

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

By Mark Twain

Mark Twain Quote # 2

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Mark Twain Quote # 1

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.