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
believe men enough
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
speech counterfeit
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
sea sick people
We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.
country lying may
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
years kentucky world
If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.
half miserable moments
Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.
want one-thing
Do one thing every day you don't want to do.
ocean cat men
It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.
hundred angry
When angry, count to a hundred.
silly mean men
The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.
people paper rich
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
sweat worry wish
Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
girl book hero
Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.
pursuit-of-happiness important just-be-happy
It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.