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
adversity easily endure trying
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
lie lies-and-lying run six truth trying
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
character men trying
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
men perfection trying
....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
dream trying want
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
effort deep-thought trying
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.
leadership education trying
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
teaching trying underwater
Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
sleep funeral trying
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
men trying noise
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.
editors trying newspapers
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.
cities trying lasts
It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.
religious ideas always-trying
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
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.