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
ignorance clean-desk needs
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
flattery compliment delivery
The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
cat writing over-you
That cat will write her autograph all over your leg if you let her.
support age charity
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
men medicine moral
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
country party men
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
learned leave obvious people
I learned long ago never to say the obvious thing, but leave the obvious thing to commonplace and inexperienced people to say
thinking compliment enough
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.
fear atheism may
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
inspiration risk lines
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
inspiration
The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
race coward human-condition
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
fear halloween temptation
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
inspiration firsts twenties
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.