--- title: "7 Tired Quotes By Mark Twain" description: "7 Tired quotes by Mark Twain. Plus more from Mark Twain and more Tired sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cce/mark-twain-22_acid_so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-it_318344.png" --- > [So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-it-s-lazy-a-man-is-not-very/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cce/mark-twain-22_acid_so-avoid-using-the-word-very-because-it_318344.png) > [Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/stars-are-good-too-i-wish-i-could-get-some-to-put-in-my-hair-but-i/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/mark-twain-22_black_stars-are-good-too-i-wish-i-could-get-so_819072.jpg) > [Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/foreigners-cannot-enjoy-our-food-i-suppose-any-more-than-we-can-enjoy/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/507/mark-twain-22_bills_foreigners-cannot-enjoy-our-food-i-suppo_1172322.jpg) > [I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-am-losing-enough-sleep-to-supply-a-worn-out-army/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/mark-twain-22_army_i-am-losing-enough-sleep-to-supply-a-wor_1743482.png) > [Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/customs-do-not-concern-themselves-with-right-or-wrong-or-reason-but/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2e/mark-twain-22_concern_customs-do-not-concern-themselves-with-r_2584596.png) > [I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-have-never-taken-any-exercise-except-sleeping-and-resting-and-i-2/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/016/mark-twain-22_benefits_i-have-never-taken-any-exercise-except-s_2589439.png) > [Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/man-was-made-at-the-end-of-the-week-s-work-when-god-was-tired/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b1/mark-twain-22_god_man-was-made-at-the-end-of-the-week-s-wo_2624723.png) ## Other authors on Tired ## More by Mark Twain > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/sing-like-no-one-s-listening-love-like-you-ve-never-been-hurt-dance/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-you-had-made-the-acquiring-of-ignorance-the-study-of-your-life-you/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-creator-sat-upon-the-throne-thinking-behind-him-stretched-the/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-s-easy-to-quit-smoking-i-ve-done-it-hundreds-of-times/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-never-wrong-to-do-the-right-thing/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/a-man-accustomed-to-american-food-and-american-domestic-cookery-would/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/there-is-nothing-training-can-t-cannot-do-nothing-is-above-its-reach/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/i-never-write-metropolis-for-seven-cents-because-i-can-get-the-same/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/the-higher-animals-get-their-teeth-without-pain-or-inconvenience-man/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/as-far-as-i-can-see-italy-for-fifteen-hundred-years-has-turned-all/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/begin-with-the-determination-to-succeed-and-the-work-is-half-done/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/many-public-school-children-seem-to-know-only-two-dates-1492-and-4th/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/if-we-could-imagine-such-a-man-that-is-a-man-who-could-invent-the-fly/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/you-perceive-now-that-these-things-are-all-impossible-except-in-a/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) > [Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/lord-save-us-all-from-a-hope-tree-that-has-lost-the-faculty-of/) [Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tired/mark-twain/#itemlist", "name": "7 Tired Quotes By Mark Twain", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. 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