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
talking people humiliation
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
men people good-man
He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.
people gentleman alive
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.
men accountability sake
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
summer country winter
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
inspirational sarcastic sound
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
miracle awe-inspiring awe
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
light differences vivid
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
two smoking balance
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.
success men race
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
pain baptists dublin
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
running records errands
I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.
hard-work writing apprenticeship
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it...
prejudice our-thoughts
Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.