Quotes by Mark Twain

About Mark Twain:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

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It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter app...

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New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

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A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat tric...

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It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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Yes. And I’m rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I’m worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn’t ever want anything else

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When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a R...

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

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I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.

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Never put off till tomorrow what can be done the day after tomorrow just as well

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I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity – another man’s, I mean.

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Author Bio

  • NameMark Twain
  • DescriptionAmerican author and humorist
  • AliasesSamuel Langhorne Clemens; Samuel Clemens
  • BornNovember 30, 1835
  • DiedApril 21, 1910
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Humorist; Novelist; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksAdventures Of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer