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
fifteen might cigar
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.
cat purring purring-cats
I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.
medicine physicians knows
The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.
determination half succeed
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.
real heart youth
The heart is the real fountain of youth.
light water laughing
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.
christian children littles
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
summer winter france
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
people judging house
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
corn feeding
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
heaven smoking cigar
If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.
yesterday tomorrow companionship
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.
house speak unchristian
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.
rain bankers umbrella
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.