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
clothes study language
I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.
atmosphere language kind
...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.
german-language awful toothache
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
dream trying want
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.
eye men heaven
It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.
god christian army
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.
sunday weekdays use
It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.
political moral
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
practice giving opinion
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.
should-have ideas hinduism
I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.
hinduism gentle inconvenient
It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
country two independence
India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
heaven doubt may
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.
heaven climate hell
...heaven for climate, and hell for society.