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
inspirational life truth
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
funny humorous men
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
sarcastic sarcasm would-be
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
men gossip enemy
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
cat sunset dark
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.
thinking bears
I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
people religion sacred-things
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
inspiration cat men
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
death motivational-sports fear
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
attitude law-of-attraction impossible
They did not know it was impossible so they did it
kindness book communication
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
funny sarcastic sex
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
regret hero men
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
loyalty country office
My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.