Mark Twain Quotes About Pleasure

• Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Pain, Animal

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.84, Univ of California Press

• There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

  Mark Twain

  Climbing, People, Alps

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.246, Xist Publishing

• Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Intellectual, Society

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

• The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Eye, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.139, Xist Publishing

• Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Revenge, Lying

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

• One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Appreciated, Pleasure

• It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Book, Taken

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Mysterious Stranger”, Mark Twain

• The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

  Mark Twain

  Freedom, Labor Day, Pleasure

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.479, Jazzybee Verlag

• The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Exercise, Insightful

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.359, Courier Corporation

• There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Heart, Pleasure

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.248, Univ of California Press

• To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

  Mark Twain

  Justice, Pleasure, Ecstasy

  The Innocents Abroad ch. 26 (1869)

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