Mark Twain Quotes About Work

• The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

• Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.485, Courier Corporation

• Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Work, Evil

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Work

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

• Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Work, Yoga

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

• He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Work, Preaching

  Mark Twain (2005). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.216, Prestwick House Inc

• The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Ruins, Interest

• In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

  Mark Twain

  Work, Mean, Loss

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

• 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

• I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Writing, Years

• The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Law, Doe

  Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.279, Univ of California Press

• Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Two, World

• Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Work, Advice

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.297, Courier Corporation

• Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Grateful, Cutting

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

• I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

  Mark Twain

  Work

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

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