He is known for writing the classic novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and its sequel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" aka "The Great American Novel".
Mark Twain is also known for his keen wit and incisive satire. You can find thousands of quotations by Mark Twain.
He is the most frequently quoted writer in American literature. Among them are his opinions about the people he knew, the places he's been, and the books he wrote, and many other topics, such as writers, billiards, smoking, his family, and lots more.
I love his well-crafted quotes. According to Mark Twain, to get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself.
He added that anybody can have ideas. The difficulty part is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Now, let's check out my selected list of 11 Mark Twain quotations on life, honesty, age, kindness and other subjects.
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
heaven, climate, hell, company
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.” (Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935, pg. 374)
accident, name, inventors
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
age, privileges, youth, enjoy, advantages
"Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." (from 1984 novel 'Pudd'nhead Wilson', chapter 8)
rejoice, birth, grieve, funeral
"When angry count four; when very angry, swear."
angry, count, swear
"At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass." (More Maxims of Mark, pg.5)
man, ass, optimist
"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. " (Speech, 30 March 1901)
honesty, policy, money
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.”
wonder, truth, fiction, sense
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances."
kindness, act, injury, circumstances, refuse
"The lack of money is the root of all evil." (More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927)
lack, money, root, evil
Note: All these are authentic quotations written or uttered by Mark Twain.
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