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
wish done rewards
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
truth honesty politics
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
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An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.
hate people justice
I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.
names labyrinth criminal-mind
Names are not always what they seem.
motivational positive pain
Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
teaching book lessons
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
baby men censoring-books
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
writing light ideas
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
inspirational life atheist
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
respectful be-respectful ifs
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
funny religious purpose
The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.
inspiration awards noise
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
love life relationship
I can live for two months on a good compliment.