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
simple insanity insane
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
keeping-promises world body
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
cat hot cold
If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.
kings men soul
Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
book years chapters
Every person is a book, each year a chapter,
book picks
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
love marriage dream
Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
sorry greatness names
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.
men monkeys wonder
I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.
knowledge science rainbow
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
differences miracle mermaid
The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
satan helpers millions
Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.
country religious war
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
god enough made
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.