A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
- Empire of the Sun (band) (Wikipedia)
Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo formed in 2007. The duo is a collaboration between Luke Steele, of alternative rock band The Sleepy Jackson, and Nick Littlemore, of electronic dance band Pnau.
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Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark TwainThe funniest things are the forbidden.
Mark TwainThousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others. But for the Civil War, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman and Sheridan would not have been discovered, nor have risen into notice. … I have touched upon this matter in a small book which I wrote a generation ago and which I have not published as yet — Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven. When Stormfield arrived in heaven he … was told that … a shoemaker … was the most prodigious military genius the planet had ever produced.
Mark TwainTo create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark TwainIf you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
- Mark Twain (Wikipedia)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the “Great American Novel”. Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
