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
money hair people
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
friendship happiness marriage
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
adversity easy endure
It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.
time writing long
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
confidence self-esteem positive-thinking
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
change loyalty courage
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
book beer men
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
inspirational life vision
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
inspirational funny leadership
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
stories way boardwalk-empire
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
funny success carpe-diem
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
simple men ninety-nine
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
hunting long waiting
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
way snoring
There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.