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
disappointment father believe
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.
forever storm
It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.
facts doe through-the-storm
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.
writing trying boards
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
book heaven would-be
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.
pride men islands
We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.
wealth satisfied
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.
over-you moments free-will
Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.
people servant chosen
Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.
perfect dimensions speak
Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.
memories blank loaded
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
thinking men knows
It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.
way found autobiography
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
solitude boring wells
If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.