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
xmas holiday forgotten
The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.
moving party law
Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be
mistake progress
Never mistake motion for progress.
honesty ignorance stupidity
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
advice today tomorrow
Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
ideas interesting curious
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
freedom labor-day pleasure
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
attitude mind make-up-your-mind
You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.
sleep army losing
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
republic renaissance permission
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
popularity
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
idiotic conventionality humans
All human rules are more or less idiotic.
broken smoking months
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
men wealth servant
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant