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
imbeciles mean people putting run smart whether wonder
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
difficult forget forgive forgiveness means practice properly rigid stern
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
behave education mean means people teaching
Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
mean thinking political
I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
mean men ideas
Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean.
forgiveness memories mean
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
mean said-life years
Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.
believe mean science
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
life inspiring meaningful
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
teacher teaching mean
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
graduation meaningful attitude
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
mean thinking mind
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.
fall mean night
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.
mean sleep done
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.