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
people needs loan
The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.
nice writing want
When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.
good-enough catfish fishes
The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone
land names tag
Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.
school way
School gets in the way of my learning.
numbers people different
When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
book writing needs
You need not expect to get your book right the first time.
humorous stories kind
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.
worry might debt
Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.
politics idiot imagine
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
lonesome be-good
Be good and you'll be lonesome
apples want sake
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
humble turkeys islands
Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.
years ideas comforting
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once.