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
change science next
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.
birthday men age
We can't reach old age by another man's road.
time letters brevity
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
time night boston
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
time lying society
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
girl time boys
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
time ignorance clothes
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
time rope pieces
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
time
But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.
time drag stills
How slow and still the time did drag along.
time men self
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
laughing together stories
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
writing achievement squandering
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
men thinking hands
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.