#twain

Mark Twain der ki: 'Cennet ve cehennem hakkında ileri geri konuşmam, çünkü her ikisinde de dostlarım var. ↗

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

#anything #go #into #kaleidoscope #mark

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#age #any #anybody #book #highly

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#genius #humor #humorist #maxism #nietzsche

He done his level best. Was he a mining on the flat.. He done it with a zest.. Was he a leading of the choir.. He done his level best. If he'd a reg'lar task to do, He never took no rest.. Or if 'twas off and on the same.. He done his level best. If he was preachin' on his beat, He'd tramp from east to west, And north to south ..in cold and heat.. He done his level best. He'd Yank a sinner outen (Hades), And land him with the blest; Then snatch a prayer'n waltz in again, And do his level best. He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray, And dance and drink and jest, He done his level best. Whate'er this man was sot to do He done it with a zest; No matter what his contract was, He'd do his level best... ↗

— Mark Twain

#humorous #mark-twain-inspirational #inspirational

So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in the balance, I can always write haiku on Twitter. ↗

— Rosy Cole

#contemporary-poets #new-releases #poetry #quotes #rosy-cole

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #art

He begged hard, and said he couldn't play—a plausible excuse, but too thin; there wasn't a musician in the country that could. ↗

— Mark Twain

#mark-twain #music #musican #music

If my name were Mark Twain, I’d write under the pseudonym “Samuel Clemens. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#pseudonym #writing #life

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain ↗