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
wind iron atheism
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.
imagination atheism demonstration
Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.
two interesting people
The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.
funny believe hands
How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.
funny fine taxes
A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.
funny uncles men
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt
love appreciated pleasure
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
art philosophy history
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
brave danger form
How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.
successful reflection america
All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.
country law office
A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.
world idiot made
When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.
school jail support
It is better to support schools than jails.
home use miles
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.