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
law people common-sense
Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.
character home typewriters
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.
country heart people
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
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.