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
horse should ifs
If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.
doubt fiction use
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.
speaks-french speak i-can
I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
men blood despair
Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.
uninformed newspapers ifs
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
order two fire
When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.
oysters ants bees
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.
real yellow gold
The real yellow peril: Gold.
horse laughing fetch
The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.
men russia earth
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.
sound mouths slang
Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
trying half virtue
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.
tomorrow
Let us save the tomorrows for work.
luck target enough
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.