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
appear mouth open remove shut stupid
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
complaint die hard mouths people strange
All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live
hair mouths uneasy
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
freedom heart mouths
We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.
sound mouths slang
Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
mouths fool looks
Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.
cease easiest ought smoking thousand
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
desire dig hidden life raging rightly somewhere time treasure
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
caught crucified
There has been only one Christian. They caught and crucified him early.
birth grieve involved rejoice
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved
barely good whiskey
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
belief believing schoolboy
Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so
age age-and-aging dark insanity knew misfortune
(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea
divide full joy love scholars-and-scholarship value
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.