Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Mark Twain
Quotes by Mark Twain 2
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne -- Pen name Mark Twain -- 1835-1910. American author and humorist who drew on his childhood along the Mississippi River to create masterpieces of humor and sarcasm, including Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerk's factory who experiment and learn how. . . . In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours.
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
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