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
truth honesty memories
If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!
country fashion travel
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.
sweet years mind
The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
writing nonsense
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
regret i-regret humans
I am only human, although I regret it.
lying praying found
You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.
writing exclamation-points laughing
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
honest politician oxymoron
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
new-york boston philadelphia
In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?
horse spirited bites
A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
doubt bricks watches
If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.
speech information essentials
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
fruition opinion
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
science facts opinion
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.