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
people firsts world
The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
god reputation
All gods are better than their reputation.
men monkeys wonder
I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.
real two race
It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.
real men madness
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
men care humans
All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.
heart civilization
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
lying may waste
Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.
best chicago merely people trouble whereas
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
lying cowboy railroads
A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.
lying eye men
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.
book moral mines
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
regret future past
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
baby new-baby noses
A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.