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
pirate sailing good-god
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
book ideas two
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.
funny sarcastic money
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
reading-books
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
education wisdom horse
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
funny-food religion cows
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
truth lying race
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
sarcastic weather doors
In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.
men brotherhood-of-man community
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
education dog school
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
inspirational funny life
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
educational inspiration iron-ore
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
book somewhere-else people
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
life sassy discovery
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.