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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.... (more Mark Twain quotes)
He was born in a year when Comet Halley appeared (1835), and also died the year it next returned (1910).
Inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, 1982.
Father of Clara Clemens.
Pictured on the 10? US postage stamp (as Samuel L. Clemens) in the Famous American/Authors series, issued 13 February 1940.
Character Tom Sawyer was honored by an 8? US commemorative postage stamp in the American Folklore series, issued 13 October 1972.... (more Mark Twain trivia)