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
men ignorant
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
father thinking twenties
I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.
cases teach one-thing
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
law growth
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.
clever lying blood
The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.
nature inspiration cat
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
christian inspiration practice
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
funny sarcastic sports
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
motivation integrity emotional
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
spring weather different
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
god sarcastic education
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
respect life-changing life-lesson
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.
years america world
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
funny witty powerful
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.