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
politics fleas taught
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
class literature politics
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
men shining politics
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.
laughter political politics
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
war politics helping
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
truth honesty politics
Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.
politics diapers politician
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
politics idiot imagine
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
ignorance humor politics
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
drinking beer politics
Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.
men law politics
Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.
men political politics
I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.
believe government politics
When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible...
achievement dollars politics
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".