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
cost-of-living cost popularity
The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.
birthday growing-up age-and-youth
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.
joy sorrow secret
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.
stars science mystery
There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.
truth use truth-is
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
christian country america
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.
tired reason forbidden
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
good-luck wish alive
Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.
bird cuckoos clock
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
dog men animal
There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
mother dog father
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
dog long lost
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
dog integrity differences
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.
integrity opportunity desire
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?