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
men one-man urges
There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.
taken unique opportunity
Our inner strengths, experiences, and truths cannot be lost, destroyed, or taken away. Every person has an inborn worth and can contribute to the human community. We all can treat one another with dignity and respect, provide opportunities to grow toward our fullest lives and help one another discover and develop our unique gifts. We each deserve this and we all can extend it to others.
motto
Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.
writing perfect done
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
rhyme repeats
History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
race want doe
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
ideas
The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
use fifty dollars
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
jobs journalist reporters
A journalist is a reporter out of a job.
german-language years awful
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
dream goal training
Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is different for each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have.
ideas kaleidoscope new-ideas
There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
life-is-too-short life-is-short no-regrets
Life is short, break the rules.
real men judging
No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.