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
men age world
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
upset oratory world
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
mind naked world
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.
fun heaven world
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
ideas world curious
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
flower world gone
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
years america world
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
space sailing world
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
people firsts world
The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
science maturity our-world
When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.
liberty world bears
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
pride thinking world
I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.
thinking new-orleans world
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
gun world innocent
I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.