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
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
powerful light agents
A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.
book men air
I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?
god sorry lying
The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.
girl book charming
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.
men effort found
God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
past moments pondering
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
men want worst
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.
inspirational humility humble
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
inspirational crazy differences
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
heart eye house
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.
behind cup festival gets nation seen thinking
He said, 'I've never seen a festival where the whole nation gets behind an event. The Cup astonishes'. We are still thinking the same thing.
inspirational motivational hero
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
baby ideas house
The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.