Mark Twain Quotes on Psychology
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The funniest things are the forbidden.
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Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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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.
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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.'
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It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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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.
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Love your enemy, it'll scare the hell out of him.
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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.