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
smoking cigar moderation
I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.
atheist men church
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
teeth pills balls
I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.
house taxes profanity
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
food men dinner
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface
writing benefits amusement
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
wine bottles red
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
war names memorial
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.
wise children lying
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
genius hunger handmaids
Hunger is the handmaid of genius
humanity climate environment
It is your human environment that makes climate
regret future past
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
heaven want bermuda
You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.
theatre stories sometimes
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.