 | BiographyType: Writter, Lecturer Born: November 30, 1835 Died: April 21, 1910 The name Mark Twain is a pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri Clemens was an American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). A gifted raconteur, distinctive humorist, and irascible moralist, he transcended the apparent limitations of his origins to become a popular public figure and one of America’s best and most beloved writers. |
Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.
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