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
bird cuckoos clock
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
dog men animal
There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
mother dog father
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
dog long lost
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
dog integrity differences
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.
integrity opportunity desire
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
inspiration wine pens
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
baby fighting boys
The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting
dog stars philosophical
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.
men age world
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
civilization pioneers railroads
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
gambling long whiskey
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
rooms whiskey committees
Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
matter way
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.