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
summer winter france
France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.
corn feeding
Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn
heaven smoking cigar
If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.
yesterday tomorrow companionship
Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.
house speak unchristian
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.
rain bankers umbrella
A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.
thank-god useless talent
Talent without work is useless, thank God
girl boys mind
There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
wise cautious grows
As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.
wise fire silence
it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.
speech free-speech
None but the dead have free speech.
emergencies needs mystery
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.
way taught dishonor
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.
numbers race four
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.