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
school jail support
It is better to support schools than jails.
children school men
Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.
people criticism criticize
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
inspirational life forever
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
men mind courses
Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.
two years alive
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.
children littles charity
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
inspiration firsts twenties
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
past firsts good-times
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
struggle training association
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
real chance sin
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
men glaciers alps
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.
men light heaven
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
past race interesting
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.