Mark Twain Quotes

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

We have a bow and arrow and if we aim well, we can hit the target. The problem is that Bayern has a bazooka. The probability that they will hit the target is clearly higher.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint lyin in my verses, I'm just tellin you the basics of growin up wit ya friends and becomin the one that made it

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.