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
curves hands seductive
Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.
bigotry
Travel is fatal to bigotry.
summer successful vacation
The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.
teaching character writing
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
outsiders measurement size
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
long hamlet-and-ophelia speech
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;
hands play sound-judgment
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
funny-friendship exercise funeral
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
teaching men fool
You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.
eden
Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.
friendship hurt heart
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
happy-birthday growing-up 50th-birthday
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
inattention doe silent
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.
world speech oratory
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.