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
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.
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
teaching ideas hours
He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
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?
teacher teaching mean
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
teaching book lessons
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
teaching noble stills
It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.
sweet children teaching
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
teaching assessment personality
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
kings teaching book
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.
teaching men fool
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
teaching character writing
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
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?