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
training training-and-education
There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.
inspirational horse prayer
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.
money writing cities
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
example frustrating good-examples
There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.
anniversary marriage wedding
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
blow wind house
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows
differences fiction-and-nonfiction believable
The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.
worry knows
It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.
writing men done
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.
book ideas america
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
dresses half charm
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
age gone charity
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
running long recipes
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.
better-days knows values
Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.