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
believe men hands
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
health imagination logic
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
love prayer heart
Out of the depths of my happy heart wells a great tide of love and prayer for this priceless treasure that is confided to my lifelong keeping. You cannot see its waves as they flow toward you, darling, but in these lines you will hear...the distant beating of its surf.
regret opportunity thinking
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.
soulmate flower sunshine
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
philosophical passion self
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
pain revenge lying
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
ignorance ignorant should
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
ignorance ignorant ignorant-person
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
ignorance ignorant twins
...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
ignorance thinking ignorant
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
ignorance men hands
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
ignorance too-much trouble
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
optimistic clothes dreamer
Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.