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
years lazy limits
I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.
laughter blow race
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts
people mind religion
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
book someday grammar
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.
war boys people
But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.
inspirational humility humble
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
fire heaven looks
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
kings men facts
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
camelot said
Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.
soul religion world
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.
said
I said nothing of the sort.
grateful long trying
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
world speech oratory
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
inattention doe silent
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.