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
arrogance books drinks everybody geniuses great water wine
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water
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Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.
inspiration wine pens
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
wine labels bottles
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
wine bottles red
One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.
coffee wine giving
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
wine water literature
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
wine men majority-vote
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.
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.
book wine water
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
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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
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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.