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
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A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
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There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
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I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.