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
landed reason
If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
cannot caprice convention diseased nature opposed reason subject therefore whim
The convention miscalled 'modesty' has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice
tired reason forbidden
Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
modesty reason conventions
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.
sanity reason preserves
for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.
feelings way reason
That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
atheism slave reason
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.
fishing reason certain
In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.
clothes reason
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.
firsts reason
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
fiction requirements reason-why
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
heart intellect reason
You can't reason with the heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
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