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
father science years
When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.
teacher educational learning
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
suicide grief heart
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.
suicide suicidal people
But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
leadership education trying
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.
clever men ass
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
coffee average breakfast
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
coffee aggravation smell
Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.
children humorous parenting
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
sense-of-humor human-nature one-thing
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
atheist departure helping
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
hard-work organization done
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
heart men two
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.
baseball struggle expression
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.