I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image