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
act desire drinking full leaving mere refusing seems system war
The system of refusing the mere act of drinking and leaving the desire in full force, is unintelligent war tactics, it seems to me
drinking abstinence liquor
Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.
real drinking men
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.
drinking beer politics
Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.
drinking alcohol funny-beer
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.
drinking fighting water
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
drinking wine scotch-whisky
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
drinking wine labels
You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.
drinking night scotch
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
kindness drinking injury
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
drinking beer men
Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
complaint complaints-and-complaining compliment courteous gentle ought precede resentment
I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.
awake refrain rule smoke
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake
number remember
It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.