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
animal men favors
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
wisdom men moon
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
sex young young-ladies
In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has
mother men law
Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.
attitude magic noble
I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.
marriage military ulyssess-grant
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
marriage girl advice
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
education men training
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.
two forever literature
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
years law growth
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
dog humor home
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
life men play
The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
pride men discovery
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!
father average america
The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.