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
simple men ninety-nine
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.
hunting long waiting
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
way snoring
There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
imagination earth wonder
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders...
grief sadness men
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
men trying noise
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
marriage men race
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
self self-respect compliment
An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
heart civilization
Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.
pride thinking world
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
san-francisco gone done
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
race superstitions conservatism
When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.
humorous house rooms
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
suicide powerful humorous
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.