Mark Twain Quotes
Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.
He was asked why the War Office maintained three sets of figures: 1st Earl of Oxford
When asked by aides what to tell the public regarding campaign promises that could not be kept:
One of the major reasons that President George W. Bush had given for invading Iraq was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were found.
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".
