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
writing censorship print
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
flower world gone
A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.
characteristics humans
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
pain heart race
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
good-luck luck return
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.
daughter people luck
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
hands luck honest
Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!
luck ignorant way
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
cat boys two
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.
poverty wealth crime
Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
religious thoughtful simple
That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.
memories loss grieving
It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.
forgiveness memories mean
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.
thinking voice public-opinion
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.