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
law idiot made
Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.
world idiot made
When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.
mad intriguing moments
Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.
vain made
Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.
mad people news
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
answers golden made
Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.
honesty use made
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.
love love-is madness
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
mad madness man men wholly
No man has a wholly undiseased mind; in one way or another all men are mad
god enough made
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
real men madness
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
complaint complaints-and-complaining compliment courteous gentle ought precede resentment
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
awake refrain rule smoke
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake
number remember
It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.