Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
善良是一種聾子能聽見、盲人能看見的語言。
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
皺紋應該只是微笑留下來的印記。
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
保持身體健康的唯一辦法，就是吃點你不想吃的，喝點你不想喝的，以及做點你不願做的事情。
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
如果你的朋友們開始誇你看上去多麼年輕，那就是你正在變老的確據。
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
人類有一件真正有力的武器，那就是笑。
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
不要失去想象力。人一旦失去了想象力，雖生猶死。
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
當你垂釣愛情，要用你的心當作餌，而不是用你的腦袋做誘餌。
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
我總是等機會錯過了才發現我曾有過機會。
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
讓自己高興起來的最好辦法就是設法讓別人高興起來。
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
最嚴重的寂寞是無法與你自己安然相處。
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
把每天成為你生命中最美好的一天。
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
人生最重要的兩天就是你出生的那天和你明白自己為何出生的那天。
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
勇氣就是抵禦恐懼的能力，要駕馭恐懼，而不是消滅恐懼。
Do something every day that you don’t want to do;this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
每天做一些你所不想要做的事；這是養成習慣不帶痛苦地盡責任的最好辦法。
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
人類有一種自然的欲望就是要擁有比他所需要的更多好東西。
People who come up with new methods, before his new method think, people always say he is.
想出新辦法的人，在他的新辦法出現以前，人們總說他是異想天開。
Life is alive, we must be good at the situation, million can not be a waste of time, do not worry.
人生在世，必須善於處境，萬不可浪費時間，作無益的煩惱。
Travel with someone is the best way to find out whether you like it or not.
跟某人旅行是發現你喜歡此人還是討厭此人的最好方法。
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
最好閉上嘴讓別人認為你傻而不是張開嘴巴去消除所有疑問。
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
別到處說世界虧欠了你。世界什麼都不欠你的。你還沒出生，世界就在這兒了。
Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
真正偉大的人是讓你能產生偉大起來的感覺。
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
先是怕生，後才怕死。完全活過的人，隨時都準備死。
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
越是禁止的事物越要流行。
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
永遠不要跟愚人爭論，他們會把你拖到跟他們水平一樣，然後回擊你。
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
愚弄人們上當要比說服他們受騙更容易。
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
有時候真實比小說更加荒誕，因為虛構是在一定邏輯下進行，但現實往往卻毫無邏輯可言。
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
紫羅蘭把它的香氣留在那踐踏者的腳踝上，這就是寬恕。
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
讓我們陷入困境的不是無知，而是看似正確的謬誤論斷。
The most interesting information comes from children,for they tell all they know and then stop.
最有趣的信息是來自兒童，因為孩童告訴他們所知道的便會停下來。
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
氣候是我們的期望，天氣卻是我們懂的。
馬克·吐溫（Mark Twain）原名森姆·朗赫恩·克萊門斯（Samuel Langhorne Clemens）是美國著名幽默大師、小說家、作家和演說家，創作了大量的文學作品，包括小說、散文、詩歌和劇本等。
吐溫於1835年11月30日出生在美國密蘇里州（Missouri）佛羅里達（Florida）市內鄉村的貧窮律師家庭。父母育中七名小孩，吐溫排行第六，可惜兒女中只有三名能倖存下來。
在吐溫四歲時，他們一家遷往密蘇里州的漢尼拔（Hannibal），一個鄰近密西西比河（Mississippi）的城市。與此同時，密蘇里州是當年的奴隸州郡，令年輕的吐溫親自了解黑奴生活，這給他日後創作歷險記主題小說帶來無限的靈感。
父親於吐溫十二歲時去世，他只好停學，到工廠當小工。後來吐溫換了不少職業，如密西西比河的領航員、礦工及新聞記者工作。因緣際遇，吐溫漸漸著手寫作一些趣味小品，就這樣開展了他的寫作生涯。
吐溫一生寫了大量作品，體材有小說、劇本、散文和詩歌。他的作品風格既富有獨特的個人機智與妙語，又不乏深刻的社會洞察與剖析，批判不合理的現象或人性的醜惡之處，表達了強烈的正義感和對人民的關心，代表作品有《湯姆·索亞歷險記（The Adventures of Tom Sawyer）》、《哈克貝利·費恩歷險記（The adventures of huckleberry finn）》和《百萬英鎊（The Million Pound Bank Note）》等等。
從風格上說，專家們和一般讀者均認為幽默和諷刺是吐溫的寫作特點。他經歷了美國從初期資本主義到帝國主義的發展過程，其思想和創作表現亦從輕快調笑變為辛辣諷刺再到悲觀厭世的發展階段。
吐溫交遊廣闊，認識很多名人如威廉·豪威爾斯（William Howells）、布克·華盛頓（Booker Washington）、尼古拉·特斯拉（Nikola Tesla）、海倫·凱勒（Helen Keller）、亨利·羅（Henry Roger）都是吐溫的好朋友。吐溫於1910年4月21日去世，享年七十四歲，安葬於紐約州（New York）的埃爾邁拉（Elmira）。2006年吐溫被美國權威期刊《大西洋月刊（The Atlantic）》列為《對美國最有影響力的100位人物》的第十六位 。
