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
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The plan of the newspaper is good and wise; when you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one
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You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you
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It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
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He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits
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If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
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I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
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Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
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A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
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If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
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When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
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The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion