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
discovery interesting trying
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.
discovery years europe
In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.
kings wish proud
Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out
common senses
Love heightens all senses - except the common.
waiting
Don't wait the time is never just right.
hero would-be admire
We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes
together may telephones
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
vacation vocation
Make your vacation your vocation.
mean sleep done
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
weather littles done
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.
people joy sorrow
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
looks nails hammers
To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
ecstasy feels
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.
pride vanity arrogance
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny