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
again careful cat caution cold experience hot lest sit stop wisdom
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
anywhere care none took travel understood wild
None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!
care divide full grief joy somebody value
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.
american-author care divide full grief joy somebody value
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
care caste color creed human man nor prejudices race stand
I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
care caste color cool creed human man nor prejudices worse
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse
country men care
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.
flower thinking care
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
opportunity security career-opportunities
There is no security in life, only opportunity.
hardship half care
It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
say-anything tasks be-careful
I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.
travel pain care
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
song law care
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
food thinking care
We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.