Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
laughter cutting men
The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.
optimistic dreamer optimist
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
kings moving men
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.
humor yield irritation
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
inspirational wisdom philosophical
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
inspirational funny sarcastic
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
kindness drinking injury
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.
good-life cancer positive-thinking
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
life friendship funny-best-friend
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
may matter spirit
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
employment honest hated
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
dream loneliness race
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
happiness happy people
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
lame trials murder
A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.