Mark Twain Quotes About Gratitude

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

• If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Kindness, Compassion

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

• Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Debt, Goes On

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3668, GENERAL PRESS

• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 3, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

• Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Two, Gone

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.482, Courier Corporation

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