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
baby teacher father
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?
writing poet conscious
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.
wisdom mind trying
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
history humiliating
It's so damned humiliating.
too-much looks reader
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
real names use
We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.
names littles minutes
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
science men statistics
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
business judging achievement
When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.
business example succeed
My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.
nature turns seasons
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
nature grace passing-away
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
nature miracle
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
cities san-francisco bay-area
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.