Mark Twain Quotes About Wealth

• To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Long, Needs

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.385, Library of America

• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

• The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Atheist

  "Letters from the Earth" (1940)

• I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Money, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Money, Business

  Following the Equator ch. 56, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

  Mark Twain

  Wealth, Satisfied

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.385, Library of America

• How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Littles, Wealth

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

• How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

  Mark Twain

  Men, Wealth, Servant

  Mark Twain, Charles Neider (1961). “Life as I find it [by] Mark Twain [pseud.] Essays, sketches, tales, and other material, the majority of which is now published in book form for the first time: edited, with an introd. and notes”

• Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Entrepreneur, Poverty

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity--
  Early to bed and early to rise
  Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
  As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Boys, Men

• I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Thinking, Effort

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.342, Penguin

• The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

  Mark Twain

  Clever, Lying, Blood

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