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
men civilization mind
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
reality differences needs
The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.
country lying may
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
book classic praise
A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read
inspiration parrots refined
She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot
inspirational success smart
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
regret rome firsts
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
regret opportunity thinking
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.
regret
We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.
regret hero men
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
children real party
There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.
hate ignorance people
I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were—for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized.
mother truth lying
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club
book want faces
I don't want no better book than what your face is.