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
change loyalty courage
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
book beer men
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
inspirational life vision
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
stories way boardwalk-empire
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
funny success carpe-diem
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
hunting long waiting
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
way snoring
There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
imagination earth wonder
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders...
grief sadness men
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
marriage men race
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
self self-respect compliment
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
pride thinking world
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
san-francisco gone done
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
race superstitions conservatism
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.