Mind Quotes by Mark Twain

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

— Mark Twain

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

— Mark Twain

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

— Mark Twain

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

— Mark Twain

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

— Mark Twain

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

— Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

— Mark Twain

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

— Mark Twain

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

— Mark Twain

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole…

— Mark Twain

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to…

— Mark Twain

Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.

— Mark Twain

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

— Mark Twain

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

— Mark Twain

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

— 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

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they…

— Mark Twain

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins.…

— Mark Twain

My mind changes often ... People who have no mind can easily be steadfast and firm, but when a man is loaded…

— Mark Twain

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one…

— Mark Twain

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional…

— Mark Twain

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and…

— Mark Twain

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls…

— Mark Twain

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material…

— Mark Twain

“As a rule it will listen to neither a dull speaker nor a bright one. It refuses all persuasion. The dull speaker…

— Mark Twain

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just…

— Mark Twain

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to…

— Mark Twain

The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and…

— Mark Twain

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will…

— Mark Twain

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a…

— Mark Twain

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for…

— Mark Twain

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

— Mark Twain

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not…

— Mark Twain

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

— Mark Twain

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

— Mark Twain

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean,…

— Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

— Mark Twain

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly…

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain