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
sarcastic waiting vacancy
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
sarcastic ignorance intelligence
His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.
funny sarcastic way
Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.
sarcastic cabbage useless
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
sarcastic heart worry
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.
art flattery compliment
To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
attention pay flattery
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
mind ethics-and-morals morality
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
morality ethics enjoy
The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.
gratitude pay debt
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
law criminals tradition
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
tradition century dynamite
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
criticism criticize ifs
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
somewhere-else advice household-chores
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.