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
life ifs
You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.
metrics strategy ifs
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.
cat misuse ifs
If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.
criticism criticize ifs
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
focus ifs
We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.
respectful be-respectful ifs
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
fewer ifs
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.
frogs ifs dies
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
epitaph ifs ought
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
fool humourous ifs
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
future want ifs
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
more-time ifs written
If I had more time, I would have written less.
work ifs
Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
dies ifs
Ah, if he could only die temporarily!