Mark Twain’s real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was an American writer, comedian, businessman, publisher, and speaker. He was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri. He was the sixth of Jane’s seven children. Twain was fascinated by science and scientific research. Twain’s writings and lectures enabled her to restore his financial position. He went through a period of deep depression that began in 1896 when his daughter Susie died of meningitis.
He summed up his view of revolutions in the following statement:
They say that I am a revolutionary by sympathy, birth, education and principles. I am always on the side of the revolutionaries, because there has never been a revolution without oppressive and intolerable conditions of resistance.
–Mark Twain
- If you’re telling the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Good friends, good books and a sleeping conscience are the ideal life.
- As long as you’re on the side of the majority, it’s time to reform.
- A person who does not read has no advantage over a person who cannot read.
- Never leave for tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- A classic is a book that people praise but don’t read.
- I have never allowed my studies to interfere with my education.
- The fear of death arises from the fear of life. A person who lives life to the fullest is ready to die at any moment.
- Never tell the truth to people who are not worth it.
- Don’t say the world owes you its life. The world owes you nothing. He was here before.
- Each person is a moon and has a dark side that they don’t show to anyone.
- You always do the right thing. It will satisfy half of humanity and amaze the other half.
- I have been through terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
- Believe in a book about talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks that turn into snakes, burning bushes, food that falls from the sky, people that walk on water, and all kinds of magical, absurd, and primitive stories that are count and say us. need help?
- The secret to moving forward is in the beginning.
- You get the facts first and then you can twist them as much as you want.
- The fact that man distinguishes between good and evil proves his intellectual superiority over other beings, and the fact that he can do evil proves his moral inferiority over all beings that cannot.
- Confrontation is the death of joy.
- Censorship tells a man he can’t eat steak just because a child can’t chew it.
- Religion was invented when the first swindler met the first fool.
- The government is only a servant and an interim official cannot have the prerogative to determine what is good and what is not, and decide who is a patriot and who is not. His function is to obey orders, not their source.
- Ignorant people think that the sounds of cats fighting are annoying and not the disgusting grammar they use.
- People can be terribly cruel to each other.
- Our problems do not arise because we do not know. This is what we know for sure, it is not.
- When people don’t respect us, we get very offended, but basically no one has much respect for themselves.
- I would like to make you understand that a good and loving heart is rich enough, and a mind without it is poverty.
- The character of a person is recognized by the adjectives that he usually uses in a conversation.
- There are many good defenses against temptation, but cowardice is the surest.
- Whiskey to drink, water to fight.
- Among other common lies, we have a silent lie – a deception, expressed in the fact that a person just sits still and hides the truth. Many die-hard truth conspirators engage in this distraction by imagining that if they aren’t lying, then they aren’t lying at all.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness, and as a result many of our fellow citizens are in dire need of it.
- When redheads are above a certain social level, their hair is brown.
- The noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has laid an egg laughs as if she had laid an asteroid.
- Don’t make a woman fall in love. May she dream of not crying when she returns to her bitter reality.
- Age is a matter of mind, it doesn’t matter. If you don’t mind, that’s fine.
- The secret to moving forward is in the beginning. The secret to getting started is to break down difficult, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks and start with the first one.
- Common sense is the result of experience and experience is the result of bad judgment.
- I am an old man and have had many problems, but most of them never appear.
- Humor is humanity’s greatest blessing.
- Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- I can teach anyone how to get what they want from life. The problem is that I can’t find anyone who can tell me what they want.
- Without further ado, if a man loves cats, I am his friend and companion.
- The facts are complex, but the statistics are malleable.
- The fewer reasons to justify a traditional custom, the more difficult it will be to get rid of it.
- Doing something every day that you don’t want to do is the golden rule for getting into the habit of doing your duty painlessly.
- A gentleman is someone who can play the banjo and can’t.
- Pain can take care of itself, but to experience the full value of joy, you need someone to share it with.
- Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
- There is nothing more annoying than having two people talking while you are busy.
- Don’t say the old lady was screaming. She take her inside and let her scream.
- Good is good and evil is bad, and the body cannot fail if it is ignorant and does not know better.
- There are three things that men can do with women: love them, tolerate them or turn them into literature.
- Each person is a book, each year is a chapter.
- If you can only spell one word, you clearly lack imagination.
- A simple question and a simple answer is the shortest way out of most confusion.
- High and beautiful literature is wine, and mine is only water, but everyone loves water.
- They didn’t know it was impossible, so they did it.
- Never be humble before the humble, never be humble before the humble.
- We must be careful to take from experience only the wisdom that is there and dwell on it, so as not to be like a cat sitting on a hot stove top. He will never sit on a hot pot again, which is good, but he will never sit on a cold pot again either.
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
- You can’t argue with the heart, it has its own laws and hits what the mind despises.
- Never get into a mental battle with an unarmed person.
- Good parenting hides how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of others.
- The test of all good fiction is that you have to take care of the characters, the good ones succeed, the bad ones fail. The problem with most novels is that everyone wants to go to hell as soon as possible.
- There are some people that I respect and admire, but I don’t think much about opinions.
- How little can make us happy when we feel we deserve it.
- Nothing exists except you. And you are just a thought.
- Human pride is not worth it, there is always something that takes your breath away.
- The job of a good friend is to support when things go wrong. Almost everyone will be on your side if you are right.
- We try to live in such a way that even the gravedigger regrets it when we die.
- There is something fascinating about science. Those supposed returns actually come from such a small investment.
- The problem is not that there are too many boobs, but that the flash is poorly distributed.
- I don’t want a better book than your face.
- How many times do we remember with regret that Napoleon once shot the editor of a magazine and missed and killed the editor. But we fondly remember that he meant well.
- The problem with the world is not that people don’t know enough, but that they know so much that they just don’t know.
- I think that for those who sympathize with nature, each season is in turn the most beautiful.
- A classic is something that everyone wants to read and no one wants to read.
- Fame is smoke, popularity is an accident, the only certainty on earth is oblivion.
- I do not see the sense in the uniform and arbitrary spelling of words. With the same success, you can make all the clothes the same and cook all the dishes the same way. Similarity is boring, variety is nice.
- There are people who strictly refrain from eating, drinking and smoking and have somehow acquired a dubious reputation. You pay this price for health. And health is all they get from it. This is strange. It’s like spending your entire fortune on a dry cow.
- Really cool people make you feel like you can be cool too.
- When bad luck comes, it doesn’t come in the form of nuggets, but in the form of a downpour.
- Necessity is the mother of risk.
- To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- If your job is to eat the frog, you better do it in the morning. And if your job is to eat two frogs, then it’s best to eat the big one first.
- Be kind higher and nobler.
- If you don’t like the New England weather, wait a few minutes.
- If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I’m ready today. If you just want a five-minute speech, it’ll take me two weeks to prepare.
- Those who don’t read good books have no advantage over those who don’t know.
- I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am crazy about God, and all his works must be viewed with respect.
- Love is not a product of reasoning and statistics. It comes out of nowhere and cannot be explained.
- No one is a loser who has friends.
- If you have to be indiscreet, beware your indiscretion.
- The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion, our opponents are crazy.
- You can’t add too much style to a stunner.
- All kings are mostly scoundrels, hairy, I realize.
- You meet people who forget you. You forget about the people you know. But sometimes you meet people you can’t forget. They are your friends. “
- How empty is theory before facts!
- A person who cannot read has no advantage over a person who cannot read.
- Some people get their education without going to college. The rest is received after leaving.
- The ink in which all history is written is just liquid prejudice.
- With a full stomach it doesn’t matter much where the spirit is hungry.
- People who try to find a reason in this story will be held accountable, people who try to find a moral will be banned, people who try to find a conspiracy will be shot.
- Heaven will be merciful if your dog got in and you stayed home. Of all created beings (man) is the most despicable. Of the entire lineage, he is the only one… who has malice. He is the only being that adds pain to the sport because he knows it is pain.
- Having faith is believing in something that you knew was not true.
- Well, there are times when you just want to hang all of humanity and be done with the joke.
- Don’t worry about your cute little mind. People throw stones at shiny things and life makes love more difficult.
- Good golf pampered on foot.
- Humanity is a race of cowards, and I not only walk in this procession, I carry the banner.
- I’m not exaggerating, and when I say something, I mean it.