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
cat men tails
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
more-time ifs written
If I had more time, I would have written less.
life-is-short kissing forgiving
Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.
vanity giving advice
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
grieving knowing childhood
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.
integrity needs honest
If one is honest there is no need to remember.
illness grew exaggeration
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
beauty beautiful fall
One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.
heart race water
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!
law succeed capacity
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
dance party butterfly
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.
life birthday getting-older
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
work mean loss
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!
work two world
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.