The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Profession: Author
Nationality: American

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The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!

When ever I get the urge to write, I lie down and it usually passes.

He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers said, which wasn't his fault.

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Oh, no, Misto C –, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid; the vast limits of their knowledge.

It was not lively enough for a pleasure trip; but if we had only had a corpse it would have made a noble funeral excursion.

If we never lied , there would be nothing to remember.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.