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
today tomorrow burden
Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.
lying covering needs
To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.
errors firm
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
children your-children our-children
Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.
real two giving
There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.
humble turkeys giving
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
wells behave maximum
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.
father good-father shows
Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.
heart exercise helping
Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor
attitude past errors
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.
law important narrative
Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.
lying dollars constitution
God was left out of the Constitution, but was furnished a front seat in this nations currency. ("In God we Trust") is a lie, this nations trust has always been with the dollar.
heaven joy humans
The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.
anxiety panic resistance
Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.