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
found hate people surer travel whether
I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them
anywhere care none took travel understood wild
None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!
halfway lie putting shoes travel truth
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
accent angels english noticed speak traveled
I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent
travel lying vanity
We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.
travel humorous foreigners
They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
travel consequence
To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
travel pain care
To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.
travel society tourism
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
travel real grateful
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.
travel mean conceited
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.
travel men people
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
funny travel humor
The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.
lying traveler drivel
But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.