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
song law care
Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
travel society tourism
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
sarcasm lips cynicism
Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.
election-time principles accounts
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
justice pleasure ecstasy
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
prayer cutting enemy
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
parenting parent honest
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
beautiful lying perfection
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
dream thinking knowing
It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
law history periods
By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
men race lust
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.
nice thinking race
We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.
opportunity race grind
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.
race together important
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?