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
book taken inspiration
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.
inspirational motivational positive
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
travel memorable carpe-diem
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
funny life education
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
friendship communication eye
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
funny life sarcastic
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
society skins demand
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
worst happened worst-things
Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.
kentucky years world
When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
birthday growing-up memories
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
inspirational success sarcastic
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
inspirational funny life
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
dog people knows
The more I know people, the more I love my dog.
law persons senators
Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.