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
heart hands noble
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
war politics helping
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
cat home tails
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
inspiration land estates
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
cute dog religious
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
country law government
[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.
hair mouths uneasy
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
heart swimming ducks
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
math science years
We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
sleep men smoking
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.
religious ideas always-trying
The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example
education wise stupid
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
funny humor cat
A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
regret editors magazines
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.