Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 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.”
Mark Twain Quotes
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
—Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
—Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
—Mark Twain
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
—Mark Twain
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
—Mark Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
—Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
—Mark Twain
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
—Mark Twain
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
—Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
—Mark Twain