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 problem old-man
I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!
inspiration rainy-day garden
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
exercise years age
I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.
lying boys accomplishment
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
school problem
The problem with education is school.
book heart three
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
good impromptu prepare speech takes three weeks
It usually takes me three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech
book cat dust
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences.
men thinking average
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
country travel heaven
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
thinking opinion should
It were not best that we should all think alike.
people judging house
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
men numbers secret
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
real men judging
No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.