Quotes by Mark Twain
6 quotes by Mark Twain (died 1910), taken from 4 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Innocents Abroad, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Eve’s Diary.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
The Innocents Abroad
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
Pudd’nhead Wilson
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.”
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“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
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“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Eve’s Diary
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“If I ask myself why I love him, I find I do not know, and do not really much care to know; so I suppose that this kind of love is not a product of reasoning and statistics, like one’s love for other reptiles and animals.”