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.
died glad masters wish
I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
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.
clothes died false modesty
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
die endeavor
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
funny success carpe-diem
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
integrity real carpe-diem
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
waiting good-things dies
All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
carpe-diem people trying
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
men dies
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
travel memorable carpe-diem
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
frogs ifs dies
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
laughing cry dies
We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
determination compliment dies
She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.