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
soulmate flower sunshine
A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.
philosophical passion self
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
pain revenge lying
Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.
ignorance ignorant should
...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.
ignorance ignorant ignorant-person
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
ignorance ignorant twins
...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!
ignorance thinking ignorant
The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.
ignorance men hands
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
ignorance too-much trouble
The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.
optimistic clothes dreamer
Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
optimistic talking race
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
optimistic breakfast optimist
...fry me an optimist for breakfast.
optimistic play backyards
That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
optimistic lovely disposition
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.