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
religious disrespect persons
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
sarcastic lying hats
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
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 world germany
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
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.