Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain More Quotes by Mark Twain More Quotes From Mark Twain There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain heaven After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed. Mark Twain coffee dream home If you have nothing to say, say nothing. Mark Twain win-win resolution communication I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey. Mark Twain monkeys wonder men Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. Mark Twain cancer courage fear When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them. Mark Twain memories reality thinking Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. Mark Twain morality half inspirational Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion. Mark Twain summer education children Humor is the good natured side of a truth. Mark Twain good-nature humor sides Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. Mark Twain single loyalty self In literature imitations do not imitate. Mark Twain imitation literature I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. Mark Twain editors newspapers trying An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. Mark Twain vocabulary humble writing I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. Mark Twain pride world thinking You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. Mark Twain salary trying men Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain stranger truth fiction It were not best that we should all think alike. Mark Twain opinion should thinking The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions. Mark Twain humble christian men And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. Mark Twain seventies uncomfortable thinking The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh. Mark Twain horse ordinary laughing
