Mark Twain Quotes

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

If you're broke, you don't want to rap about being broke; you gonna rap about hustling and getting that bread.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I was 20 years old. My entire possessions consisted of $5 and a sewing machine.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

If I had married someone wealthy when I was young, I would have sunk like a stone. Being skint makes life quite clear. You've got to take that job.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

I prefer to stay poor.