Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Wikipedia

• Born: November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri, United States

• Died: April 21, 1910, Storm field

• Written: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Mysterious Stranger, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, The Innocents Abroad, Pudd'n head Wilson, Tom Sawyer, Detective, Roughing It, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Life on the Mississippi, The Million Pound Bank Note, Concerning the Jews, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Letters from the Earth, A Tramp Abroad, Eve's Diary, King Leopold's Soliloquy, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Great Thoughts Of Mark Twain

"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."

"Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile."

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."

"College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either."

"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."

"We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain."

"I can live for two months on a good compliment."

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it."

"Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more."