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
exaggeration-is merit humans
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
country prayer taxation
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
honesty inspiration bbq
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything
kings way ornery
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
punishment rocks law
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
editors trying newspapers
I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
frozen cold inches
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!
heart mind letters
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...
wonderful easier teach
To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.
lying book age
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
doe done englishmen
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
writing plain-language adjectives
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
thinking new-orleans world
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
emotion genuine involuntary
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.