Heart Quotes by Mark Twain

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

— Mark Twain

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

— Mark Twain

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

— Mark Twain

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

— Mark Twain

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

— Mark Twain

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

— Mark Twain

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

— Mark Twain

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.

— Mark Twain

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

— Mark Twain

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to…

— Mark Twain

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in…

— Mark Twain

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear…

— Mark Twain

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron…

— Mark Twain

“he hoped she would be happy, and never regret having driven her poor boy out into the unfeeling world to suffer and…

— Mark Twain

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized…

— Mark Twain

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know…

— Mark Twain

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

— Mark Twain

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their…

— Mark Twain

Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that…

— Mark Twain

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the…

— Mark Twain

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him…

— Mark Twain

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not…

— Mark Twain

Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is…

— Mark Twain

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,…

— Mark Twain

[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the…

— Mark Twain

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we…

— Mark Twain

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of…

— Mark Twain

Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in…

— Mark Twain

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and…

— Mark Twain

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

— Mark Twain

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

— Mark Twain

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

— Mark Twain

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

— Mark Twain

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

— Mark Twain

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

— Mark Twain

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

— Mark Twain