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
age earth way
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
mother father men
By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.
country eye paris
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
travel consequence
To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
travel pain care
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
rafting easy transport
You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.
criticism pay compliment
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
moral teach
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.
radicalism next conservative
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
talking patriotism humbug
Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
numbers remember i-can
isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
memories lines done
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
money hero men
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
simplicity mind literature
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.