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
education dog school
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
inspirational funny life
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
educational inspiration iron-ore
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
heart land feet
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.
book somewhere-else people
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
life sassy discovery
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
book voice water
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.
country surprise whole
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.
positive people
He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
inspiration tails wit
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
inspirational life broken-heart
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
optimism sometimes pessimist
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
funny witty clever
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
past firsts good-times
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.