Quotes by Twain, Mark

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you wan >>

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. >>

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. >>

Quotations about World

When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part >>

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but >>

Next to reasoning, the greatest handicap to the optimum development of >>

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Twain, Mark