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
honesty ignorance stupidity
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
advice today tomorrow
Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.
ideas interesting curious
Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
freedom labor-day pleasure
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
attitude mind make-up-your-mind
You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.
sleep army losing
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
republic renaissance permission
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
popularity
The best of us would rather be popular than right.
idiotic conventionality humans
All human rules are more or less idiotic.
broken smoking months
I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
men play gentleman
A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.
education interference schooling
Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
music two adjectives
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.
sad music feels
We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.