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
wise up-early bed
Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
life pain animal
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
life trust freedom
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
funny kindness divorce
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
christian taken biblical
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
funny humorous men
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-
teamwork team-work together
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
religious apples sake
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden
happy-birthday time growing-up
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
christian voting would-be
If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.
funny sarcastic witty
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
funny life god
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
funny life education
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.