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
yesterday tomorrow companionship
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.
house speak unchristian
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.
rain bankers umbrella
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.
thank-god useless talent
Talent without work is useless, thank God
men ignorant gold
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
girl boys mind
There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
wise cautious grows
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
book reading people
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.
wise fire silence
it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
speech free-speech
None but the dead have free speech.
emergencies needs mystery
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.
way taught dishonor
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
numbers race four
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
brother years two
my sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.