The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains!

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Profession: Author
Nationality: American

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The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know--there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as its always done, and take everything from me--loved ones, property, everything--but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a.

She never used large words, but she had a natural gift for making small ones do effective work.