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
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!
compounds knows ifs
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility
moderation ifs discrete
If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.
horse should ifs
If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
uninformed newspapers ifs
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
born ifs
There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.
thinking uncomfortable ifs
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.