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
inspirational funny writing
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
friendship inspirational-life real-friends
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
kindness be-kind kind
It is higher and nobler to be kind.
kings angel luxury
The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.
money littles wealth
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
wise wisdom distance
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
religious atheist believe
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
love heart law
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
book biblical beer
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
travel hate memorable
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
real mind passing-away
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
funny humorous fools-day
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..
writing pay offers
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
mom baby children
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.