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
against chance petrified waves wear
Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
real ideas essentials
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?
animal differences humanity
Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.
fall stills behinds
To stand still is to fall behind.
lying practice
Never tell a lie-except for practice.
thinking rights arrogance
There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
men animal doe
Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.
thinking long want
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
book writing needs
You need not expect to get your book right the first time.
real drinking men
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.
lying covering needs
To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.
art stars power
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.
inspiration thinking four
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
animal needs humans
Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.