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
men people good-man
He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.
people gentleman alive
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.
summer country winter
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
inspirational sarcastic sound
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.
miracle awe-inspiring awe
There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.
two smoking balance
I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.
success men race
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
pain baptists dublin
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
hard-work writing apprenticeship
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it...
prejudice our-thoughts
Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.
dog fighting compassion
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.
new-york long paper
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
character men trying
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
mistake thinking feelings
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.