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
writing poet conscious
Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.
history humiliating
It's so damned humiliating.
too-much looks reader
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
names littles minutes
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
science men statistics
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.
business judging achievement
When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.
business example succeed
My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.
nature turns seasons
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
nature grace passing-away
Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.
nature miracle
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.
cities san-francisco bay-area
I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.
lying greatness land
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.
media talking community
I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.
beautiful eye rome
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.