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
piano musical age
Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.
flower men years
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
age may firsts
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
sleep men age
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
country apology done
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
lying spirituality praying
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.
vision predictions difficult
Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.
worry half trouble
I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
4th-of-july loss years
The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.
4th-of-july eight gone
Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.
dance joy motto
On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.
law two sausage
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
mistake thinking names
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God.
art book beer
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.