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
race together way
I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
blessed earth meek
The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
funny running people
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
able stranger acquaintance
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.
cat law cows
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.
happens
Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.
way naked born
If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.
men disrespect irreverence
True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
I am not an American. I am the American.
laughter blow atoms
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
home blessing people
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.
loyalty heart government
Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
war moon men
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
birthday men years
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.