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
sweet remember endure
That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.
over-you moments free-will
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.
people servant chosen
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
perfect dimensions speak
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
memories blank loaded
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
thinking men knows
It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
way found autobiography
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
solitude boring wells
If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.
mean giving frozen
I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.
country coins constitution
God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.
taken remains has-beens
Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.
children two compliment
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
thinking uncomfortable ifs
And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.
taught-us mind paper
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.