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 men spirit
Books are the liberated spirits of men.
funny sarcastic money
We have the best government that money can buy.
bible reading christianity
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
dream live-your-dreams your-dreams
Don't dream your life, but live your dream
interesting advantage
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
spiritual atheist common-humanity
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
love law sausage
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
lying half truth-is
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
truth
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.
stupid father men
When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.
inspirational life god
God created war so that Americans would learn geography.
death sunday people
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
blood law omission
So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: "Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is." Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.
kind persons
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.