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
death die either geniuses themselves thousands
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
death die enter next saved spent truth
Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
attended death doctor year
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think / yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
death running men
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.
death lovely
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
death inspiration misquoting
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
death exaggeration-is exaggerated
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
death real graves
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
positive death short-life
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
inspirational death atheist
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
funny life death
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
death motivational-sports fear
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
inspirational life death
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.