Quote by Mark Twain
What a wee little part of a persons life are his acts and his word

What a wee little part of a persons life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. – Mark Twain

Other quotes by Mark Twain

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. – Mark Twain

Category:
Swimming
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Life
category

What we play is life. – Louis Armstrong

Category:
Life

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Life

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. – Socrates

Category:
Life

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Life

Random Quotes

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

Category:
Poetry

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. – Charles Caleb Colton

Category:
Knowledge

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Death

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty. – Henri Becquerel

Category:
Decisions