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
cheer spring blessed
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
lying deceit belief
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
regret healing riding-your-bike
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
loss winning appreciate
what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.
truth truth-is homely
Homely truth is unpalatable.
political conservative worship
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
wine water literature
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
tragedy plus
Humor is tragedy plus time.
recovery animal intelligent
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
men age habit
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
spring heart names
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
boys men order
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
logic tradition harder
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
eye giving sticks
Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.