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
law insanity want
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
god writing attention
God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.
experience wish way
There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.
approval-of-others self people
Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
hardship half care
It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
country believe humor
I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.
humor years two
I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars.
ignorance humor politics
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
world soap wonder
I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.
schooling interfere
I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education
travel humorous foreigners
They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
humorous ophelia thee
But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!
liars humorous ambitious
... an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar.
humorous modern inconvenience
... all the modern inconveniences ...