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
motivational perfection improvement
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
dream focus doubt
Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
eye heart judging
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.
mistake apples want
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
life broken-heart heartbreak
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
inspirational funny life
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
truth inspirational-life fiction
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
religious men fool
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
inspirational funny friendship
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
college people going-to-college
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
sports dog pain
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
religious brother cutting
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.
life funny-inspirational clever
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
religious atheist people
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.