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
may possibility happened
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
inspirational life motivational
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
dream struggle past
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.
moderation ifs discrete
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
disappointment men mind
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
dream attitude lying
Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.
thinking water world
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.
kings fur make-out
All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
believe men race
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
summer doors two
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
men average trouble
The average man don't like trouble and danger.
writing want satisfaction
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
thinking people admire
There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.
kings teaching book
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.