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
dog fighting compassion
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.
new-york long paper
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
character men trying
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
thinking complaining resentment
I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
mistake thinking feelings
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
country men care
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
race together way
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
blessed earth meek
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
funny running people
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
able stranger acquaintance
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
cat law cows
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
happens
Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.
way naked born
If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
men disrespect irreverence
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.