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
advice lessons mistakes
There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.
cannot compliment compliments pay
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
action fine happiness heroic people telling unhappy
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy
man master unspoken
Man is the master of the unspoken word, which spoken, is master of him.
cut grateful idleness won
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the 'blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
cut grateful idleness won
Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor.
die endeavor
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
complaint die hard mouths people strange
All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
clothes died false modesty
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
died glad masters wish
I am glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
death die enter next saved spent truth
Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there.
distort facts
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
balls good lost pick rolling
It's good sportsmanship not to pick up lost balls while they are still rolling
editor excellent meddle needs perfect political serve shall term
I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect