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
change men political
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
evil temptation erring
Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil
inspirational determination play
One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.
mean thinking political
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
dancing
Dance like nobody's looking.
spiritual powerful book
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt....
funny successful men
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
lunch tea dinner
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
funny thinking years
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
individuality principles protection
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
life exercise insightful
The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.
christian political bears
I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.
crush war race
And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."
happiness men heaven
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.