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
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.
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.
birthday growing-up memories
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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.
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.
learning trouble wages
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
against dog home mama pack time trunk turns wife
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
convict conviction known man people settled
When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people
advertises brings fig leaf modesty statue suspicion
The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion
christian nations spite
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it