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
god fashion leaving
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board...
sound
It's not as bad as it sounds.
doe judgment good-judgment
Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
wedding flower sunshine
A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
believe german-language earth
I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.
teamwork team-work together
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
clever law lunch
A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
dog people my-dog
the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.
life pain animal
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
life success food
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
sea clothes noon
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.
spiritual wall book
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry. One has no time to examine the word and vote upon its rank and standing, the automatic recognition of its supremacy is so immediate.
editors eggs bugs
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.