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
breakfast dinner supper tea
I do not want Michaelangelo for breakfast - but for luncheon - for dinner - for tea - for supper - for between meals.
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.
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You shouldn't try to teach a pig to sing. You waste your time and it annoys the pig.
less noble others teach trouble
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others - and less trouble
good goodness less others teach
It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!
belly books-and-reading bread full mind shall shelter starved teachings worth
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
lunch tea dinner
Tea is an affront to lunch and an insult to dinner.
teaching ideas hours
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
teacher educational learning
The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.
teaching trying underwater
Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
country teaching party
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
cases teach one-thing
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
wonderful easier teach
To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.
architecture architect teach
Architects cannot teach nature anything.