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
life-and-death
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
laughing cry dies
We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.
life lasts born
Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.
civilization giving darkness
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
old-habits steps window
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.
god christian men
Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.
sobriety morality liquor
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
spiritual order race
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.
use periods term
Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.
horse animal lame
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
privilege dollars worship
We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.
art attitude expression
A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.
vulgarity-is people refined
There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.
people friendly taxation
I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.