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
honesty liars men
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty
honesty men honest
No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.
honesty men honest
Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.
honesty suffering poison
I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.
honesty use made
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
honesty thinking way
Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.
people
Never do wrong when people are looking.
miracle saint hotel
All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.
boys used hotel
It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.
love marriage love-is
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
family father men
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
education inspirational-life fighting
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
inspirational-life home cat
He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
father inspirational-life views
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.