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
pottery able ceramics
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.
ceramics pottery brics
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.
hunting clothes dolls
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.
dangerous generalization
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
weather doors cold
Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.
spots born relation
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.
france
France has usually been governed by prostitutes
epitaph ifs ought
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
doe body states
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.
ideas my-own
A better idea than my own is to listen.
christian religious four
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
men order two
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.
palaces aim sewers
You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
writing simple honor
When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.