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
may hills prosperity
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
fall mean night
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.
god children father
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.
believe taught
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.
inspirational funny leadership
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
inspirational leadership character
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
lying race care
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
country mind deities
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
country people voting
But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.
inspiration sleep smoke
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.