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
angel men present-time
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
heart thinking two
Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
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.
names principles prejudice
You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.
pants tight-pants uncomfortable
Tight pants are just uncomfortable.
years weather san-francisco
Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather.
worried happened
Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.
doctors bills cures
God cures and the doctor sends the bill.
love-you pay
In love, you pay as you leave.
kings editors people
The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.
philosophy men race
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
country government patriot
A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.
cat
Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild
buffets happens
I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?