Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
flower writing simple
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.
love inspirational life
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
home house may
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
lying believe sleep
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.
honesty lying animal
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
men light heaven
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
thinking southern world
The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.
moon men want
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
funny fake-people halloween
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
struggle training association
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
death suicide religious
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
inspirational glad worth-it
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
inspirational tragedy half
There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
marriage tragedy felicity
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.