Mark Twain Quotes About Happiness

• Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.356, Courier Corporation

• I can live for two months on a good compliment.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9066, Delphi Classics

• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Optimistic, Positivity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Happiness, Marriage

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

• Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

• Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

• A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Food, Desire

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.701, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

  Following the Equator ch. 10, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, People

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

• The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2992, Delphi Classics

• Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Contrast, Pleasant

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

• Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Impossible, Sanity

  Mark Twain (1992). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.116, Courier Corporation

• To be busy is man's only happiness.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Determination, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.171, Courier Corporation

• I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Men, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

• Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Happiness, Obscurity

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.27, St. Martin's Press

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