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
drinking fighting water
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
funny cat fighting
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
answers perplexity
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
food new-orleans criminals
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.
food taken winter
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.
memories reality thinking
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
hate book writing
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
funny humor science
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
inspirational half morality
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
inspirational life wisdom
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
inspirational marijuana smoking
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
inspirational funny motivational-sports
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
inspiration poverty affluence
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
inspiration thinking four
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.