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
ignorant different different-things
We are all ignorant; just about different things.
people deliberate
I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.
funny motivational business
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
cat fighting night
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
deceiving-others people deception
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
inspirational funny book
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
math science return
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
stars sky lovely
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
death thinking self
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
fighting men sight
It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.
inspirational wish lasts
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
inspirational family crazy
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
enemy doubt telling-the-truth
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
inspirational life work
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.