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
lonely loneliness love-yourself
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
waiting good-things dies
All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.
neat-and-tidy soul literature
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
epic drawing silence
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
motivational success travel
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
religious religion littles
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
editors eggs bugs
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
funny compassion feelings
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
names common welsh
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.
literature improvement enough
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
funny witty inspirational-life
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
funny life sarcastic
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
ignorant body knows
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
supposing-that guessing goes-on
Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.