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
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.
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.