Samuel Langhorne Clemens
United States
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
30 Nov 1835 // 21 Apr 1910
Writer / Author
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Golf is a good walk spoiled
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays