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
years law growth
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
growing-up maturity people
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.
law growth
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.
complaining growing privilege
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
happy-birthday time growing-up
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
hair argument grows
There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.
birthday growing-up memories
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
wise cautious grows
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
beautiful growing-up children
No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.
challenges ability grows
The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.
growing-up aunt president
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
happy-birthday growing-up 50th-birthday
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
growing littles matter
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.
birthday growing-up age-and-youth
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.