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
analyzing frogs results
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.
wrath spirit sin
The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.
war animal men
Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.
mind
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
heaven bartender novel
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
book writing rotten
There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.
may rhyme repeats
History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.
Do right and you will be conspicuous.
world authority fine-things
To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.
mind now-and-then
Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.
lying talking hiking
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
mouths fool looks
Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
rivers denial egyptian
Denial is much more then an Egyptian River.
certainty-of-death certainty-in-life taxes
The only certainties in life are death and taxes.