27 Mark Twain Quotes To Celebrate His Birthday

Happy birthday to Mark Twain.

To celebrate the birthday of America's great humorist and novelist the Huffington Post offers 27 of Twain's quotes.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the man behind the pseudonym that brought us such classic works of American literature as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, would be celebrating his 177th birthday if he were alive today.

Mark Twain's quotes are among the most shared and beloved, perhaps due to his wisdom acquired while working a number of jobs: He was a typesetter, steamboat pilot, miner, travel writer, and investor in technological inventions.

“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy,” wrote Mark Twain.

 

You can read the rest of the piece and the other 26 quotes via the below link:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/30/mark-twain-quotes_n_2213697.html#slide=1820423 

Mark Twain Quotes: 10 Favorites On His Birthday

To celebrate and honor one of my favorite writers, Mark Twain, the Christian Science Monitor offers 10 of the humorist's best known quotes.

William Faulkner called him “…the first truly American writer.” Ernest Hemingway declared that all American writing comes from “ Huckleberry Finn” and “there has been nothing as good since." And Norman Mailer said “Huck Finn” stands up “page for page” to the “best modern American novels.” Wednesday marks the 176^th anniversary of the birth of the matchless Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain. His genius lay in his distinctive ability to convey profound wisdom and profane wit in the same breath. Here, in tribute to the man Faulkner called the “father of American literature,” are 10 quotes from Mark Twain.

You can read the Mark Twain quotes via the below link:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2011/1129/Mark-Twain-quotes-10-favorites-on-his-birthday/A-recipe-for-contentment