10 Mark Twain Quotes on Psychology

Mark Twain quotes on psychology

15. The funniest things are the forbidden.

71. Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

74. To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

88. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself, 'All right, then, I'll GO to hell.'

103. It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

119. Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

131. Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

161. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

179. Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him.

185. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.