Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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Mark Twain
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About Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and P…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Mark TwainPatriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive but it is lightning that does the work.
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities Truth isn't.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.