Mark Twain Quotes


The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.


Context

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910


Citations

Mark Twain, Writer, Founder, Anti-Imperialist League, Mark Twain, A Biography

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See François de La Rochefoucauld for a later version of this sentiment. Quintus Horatius Flaccus


Mark Twain
Mark Twain
  • Born: November 30, 1835
  • Died: April 21, 1910
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".