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 world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample
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Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million
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Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
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Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon
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We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.
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There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
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Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
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A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
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There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.
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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.
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The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.
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I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born
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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?