Mark Twain Kindness Quotations

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see

A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them.