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
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It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races
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The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
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It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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It is the creator of wrong; wrong cannot exist until Moral Sense brings it into being
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It's a great place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit there
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It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old
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The person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.
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To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing
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When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.
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Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.