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
believe average incredibles
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.
again careful cat caution cold experience hot lest sit stop wisdom
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
children two compliment
Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.
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?
men thinking hands
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
inspiration awards noise
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
men noise salary
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
hurt sick sometimes
Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
lying inspiration doe
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
art people ignorant
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes...
art men car
...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.
cat men tails
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
regret editors magazines
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
men order two
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.