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Mark Twain is perhaps the most famous American author. Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Samuel Clemens was born in 1835. Twain died April 1910 at the age of 74 in Connecticut.

Twain is most celebrated for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.

Twain was a gifted writer and humorist and is still often quoted in speeches and in print. We have collected here several of his most famous quotes for your pleasure.

The Famous Mark Twain Quotations:

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.

We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, — which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and — watch that basket.

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title –from The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

The trouble isn’t that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn’t distributed right.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Mark Twain Book: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Australia