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
giving diplomats principles
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
food eggs fabulous
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.
education food inspiration
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
inspirational motivational-sports lying
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
motivational truth lying
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
inspirational motivational positive
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
steps window habit
A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
teacher teaching mean
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
cat men introduction
When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.
food people gone
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
confidence good-life inspirational-life
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
truth science fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
humble air hands
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.
hunting names giving
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.