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
clever men ass
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass
coffee average breakfast
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
coffee aggravation smell
Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.
children humorous parenting
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
sense-of-humor human-nature one-thing
A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.
atheist departure helping
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
hard-work organization done
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
heart men two
Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived.
baseball struggle expression
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.
animal eight ideas
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.
men years age
Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.
parent together special
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.
laughter school vacation
It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
character men judging
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.