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
drinking beer men
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
children fall cat
Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)
pirate sailing good-god
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
book ideas two
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.
art people ignorant
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes...
funny sarcastic money
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
reading-books
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
inspiration vapor reputation
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
education wisdom horse
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
funny-food religion cows
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
fall rain unjust
The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.
truth lying race
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
sarcastic weather doors
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
men brotherhood-of-man community
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.