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
imagination fields labor
Imagination labors best in distant fields.
government agriculture people
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.
religious brother men
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.
government mind earth
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
too-much enough
Too much is just enough.
pay favour ass
None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.
sky two light
It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.
thinking
Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.
issues sides satan
All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.
world digging banquets
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.
taken wish sin
Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.
beautiful credit foundation
Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
one-direction reform overboard
Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.
promise enterprise
Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.