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
men doors gambling
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
marriage men wife
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
prejudice
Travel is lethal to prejudice.
carpe-diem people trying
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
life reality imagination
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
funny clever men
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.
freedom champion liberty
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
cousin use right-words
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
men way never-trust
You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
art writing together
To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.
love marriage wisdom
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
life positive positivity
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
funny kindness divorce
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
lying humorous justice
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."