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
fluid history ink merely prejudice written
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
history looks older together twice
Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together
character history impossible preventing repeating worthwhile
It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible
best history itself repeat rhymes
History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes
history repeat
History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme.
past history doe
The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
past history facts
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
sad writing-history historical
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
inspiration civilization history
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
art philosophy history
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.
strong history people
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
history humiliating
It's so damned humiliating.
law history periods
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
history sometimes rhyme
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.