Mark Twain
Mark Twain Trivia
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Trivia
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Mark Twain's second book, THE INNOCENTS ABROAD, published in 1869, was the most popular during his own lifetime.
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In his later years, Mark Twain formed a sort of club for the daughters of several friends. He would entertain the Angelfish Club with stories and became a grandfather figure to the group.
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Mark Twain married Olivia Langdon in 1870. The couple remained married until Olivia died in 1904, and the sadness inherent in Twain's letters written after 1904 is often attributed to his depression over her death.
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Mark Twain did NOT write a book entitled Tom Sawyer's Buried Treasure. He DID write books entitled Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer: Detective, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson.
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Mark Twain received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University in 1907.
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Mark Twain published his first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, in 1867. The book contained 27 previously released pieces written during Twain's years as a newspaper writer in Nevada and California.
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The preface to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains the following warning: "PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."
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His first short story was humorous and was called Advice for Little Girls.
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Mark used several pen names before chosing Mark Twain
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After the American Civil War started in 1835, he went to California to look for gold.
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Mark is best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Quotes
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Mark Twain: I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
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Mark Twain: Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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Mark Twain: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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Mark Twain: Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
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Mark Twain: To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
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Mark Twain: To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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Mark Twain: To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
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Mark Twain: Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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Mark Twain: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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Mark Twain: There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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Mark Twain: There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
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Mark Twain: There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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Mark Twain: There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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Mark Twain: There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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Mark Twain: There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
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Mark Twain: The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
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Mark Twain: The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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Mark Twain: The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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Mark Twain: The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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Mark Twain: The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Mark Twain: The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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Mark Twain: The Public is merely a multiplied "me."
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Mark Twain: The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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Mark Twain: The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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Mark Twain: The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
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Mark Twain: The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
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Mark Twain: The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Mark Twain: The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
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Mark Twain: The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Mark Twain: The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
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Mark Twain: The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
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Mark Twain: The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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Mark Twain: Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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Mark Twain: Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.
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Mark Twain: Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
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Mark Twain: Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
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Mark Twain: Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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Mark Twain: Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
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Mark TwainProphesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
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Mark Twain: Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Mark Twain: Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
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Mark Twain: Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial "we."
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Mark Twain: One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
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Mark Twain: Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Mark Twain: Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
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Mark Twain: Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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Mark Twain: No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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Mark Twain: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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Mark Twain: Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
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Mark Twain: Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Mark Twain: My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
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Mark Twain: My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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Mark Twain: Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Mark Twain: Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
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Mark Twain: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
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Mark Twain: Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Mark Twain: Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Mark Twain: Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Mark Twain: Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
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Mark Twain:Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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Mark Twain: Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
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Mark Twain: Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Mark Twain: Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
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Mark Twain: Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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Mark Twain: Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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Mark Twain: Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
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Mark Twain: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
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Mark Twain: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Mark Twain: It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Mark Twain: It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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Mark Twain: It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Mark Twain: It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain: It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
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Mark Twain: It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
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Mark Twain: It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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Mark Twain: It is easier to stay out than get out.
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Mark Twain: It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Mark Twain: It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
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Mark Twain: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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Mark Twain: It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Mark Twain: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
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Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
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Mark Twain: In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
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Mark Twain: In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
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Mark Twain: If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Mark Twain: If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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Mark Twain: If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
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Mark Twain: Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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Mark Twain: I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Mark Twain: I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
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Mark Twain: I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
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Mark Twain: I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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Mark Twain: I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
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Mark Twain: I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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Mark Twain: I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
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Mark Twain: I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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Mark Twain: I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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Mark Twain: I can live for two months on a good compliment.
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Mark Twain:I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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Mark Twain: I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
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Mark Twain: Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
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Mark Twain: Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Mark Twain: He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
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Mark Twain: He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
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Mark Twain: Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
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Mark Twain: Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Mark Twain: Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
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Mark Twain: Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
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Mark Twain: Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Mark Twain: Golf is a good walk spoiled.
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Mark Twain: Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
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Mark Twain: God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
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Mark Twain: Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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Mark Twain: Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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Mark Twain: Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
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Mark Twain: George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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Mark Twain: Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
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Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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Mark Twain: Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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Mark Twain: Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Mark Twain: Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
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Mark Twain: Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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Mark Twain: Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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Mark Twain: Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Mark Twain: Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
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Mark Twain: Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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Mark Twain: Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
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Mark Twain: Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
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Mark Twain: Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
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Mark Twain: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Mark Twain: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Mark Twain: Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Mark Twain: Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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Mark Twain: Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain: Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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Mark Twain: Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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Mark Twain: Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
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Mark Twain: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
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Mark Twain: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Mark Twain: Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
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Mark Twain: 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
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Mark Twain: Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
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Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
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Mark Twain: By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
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Mark Twain: Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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Mark Twain: Better a broken promise than none at all.
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Mark Twain: Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
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Mark Twain: Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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Mark Twain: Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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Mark Twain: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain: All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
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Mark Twain: All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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Mark Twain: All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Mark Twain: Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Mark Twain: Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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Mark Twain: Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
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Mark Twain: Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Mark Twain: Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
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Mark Twain: A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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Mark Twain: A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
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Mark Twain: A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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Mark Twain: A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
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Mark Twain: A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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Mark Twain: A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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Mark Twain: A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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Mark Twain: A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
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Mark Twain: A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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