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
men play gentleman
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.
education interference schooling
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
music two adjectives
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
sad music feels
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.
music hypocrisy bully
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
real men madness
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
feelings way reason
That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
mean thinking mind
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.
mother truth lying
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club
horse believe speaks-french
I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.
sorry fall years
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.
fall character atheism
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
church-choir atheism forgotten
The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.
sorry ideas heaven
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.