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
kindness love-you humorous
The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.
humor fragrance decoration
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
humor forbidden-things forbidden
The funniest things are the forbidden.
history sometimes rhyme
History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.
hilarious men more-money
Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.
happiness contrast pleasant
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
happiness men busy
To be busy is man's only happiness.
happiness impossible sanity
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
god romance sacred
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
god good-god
None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.
god healthy mind
We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.
god bears burden
It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
god hands vengeance
God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
god heaven may
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.