A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark TwainAgainst the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious StrangerAlways do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark TwainGet 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.
- Mark Twain Project Online (marktwinproject.org)
Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades’ worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain, Extracts From Adam’s Diary (1906)- Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri.
The funniest things are the forbidden.
Mark Twain- The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain (gutenberg.org)
It was in 1590—winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me.
Thousands 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 TwainThunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark TwainTo create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
Mark Twain
