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
honesty use made
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
honesty thinking way
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
people
Never do wrong when people are looking.
country mind deities
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
miracle saint hotel
All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.
boys used hotel
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
real ideas tubs
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.
love marriage love-is
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
family father men
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
education inspirational-life fighting
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
inspirational-life home cat
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
father inspirational-life views
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
inspirational-life worry needs
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do.
running inspirational-life book
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.