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
beautiful growing-up children
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
skills rivers engineering
The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise...
taken acres force
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.
flower years hawaii
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
bridges cities america
Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.
men problem old-man
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!
suggestions arguing married
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
lying might believer
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
astrology return born
I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return
future want ifs
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
dream exploration
Explore. Dream. Discover.
writing too-much bed
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
inspiration wind sky
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.
book cat razors
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.