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
differences world exhibitions
Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.
eight weather ideas
When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.
fall men giving
Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!
moving heart eloquence
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
dream luxury soul
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.
eye men copying
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.
communication talking risk
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.
men use treasure
There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.
character firsts assuming
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
law honor authority
Honor is a harder master than the law.
violence doe complaining
When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.
two planets unknown-person
The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.
dream knights shadow
And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows
white rumor demise
the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.