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
life funny-inspirational clever
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
life broken-heart heartbreak
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
writing too-much bed
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
death sunday people
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
motivational perfection improvement
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
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.
carpe-diem people trying
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
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.
optimism sometimes pessimist
It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
friendship communication eye
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
funny inspiring dog
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
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.
love law sausage
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
money rich foolish
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.