Mark Twain Quotes

Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!

Beggars should be no choosers.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

How am I different than anyone else? I'm a human being, and I have my faults, too.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.

All my friends and family are either in prison or don't make enough money. I don't know what the president really does. I haven't been able to experience that kind of shift yet.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

Poverty is a great equalizer

We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for their university tuition or purchase massive fourth homes on private islands with helicopter landing pads. But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.

There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.

I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.