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Mark Twain popularized the saying in Chapters from My Autobiography, published in the North American Review in 1907. "Figures often beguile me," Twain wrote, "particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" [4] [1] [2]
[201] The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]"; that is, "The water is 12 feet (3.7 m) deep and it is safe to pass." Twain said that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain wrote:
Mark Twain: "[A] favorite theory of mine [is] that no occurrence is sole and solitary, but is merely a repetition of a thing which has happened before, and perhaps often." [1] Historic recurrence is the repetition of similar events in history.
gave the call gassed us all. spoke last set off the blast. made a frown laid the brown. made the quip let it rip. smelt it dealt it; Whoever's poking fun is the smoking gun. The smeller's the feller. The one who said the verse just made the atmosphere worse. It twas the thinker who loosened his sphincter. If you heard the song you've soiled ...
The United States national cultural center, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, has chosen to award a Mark Twain Prize for American Humor annually since 1998 to individuals who have "had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain". [12]
Twain blamed lynching in the United States on the herd mentality that prevails among Americans. [1] Twain decided that the country was not ready for the essay, and shelved it. [1] Thomas Beloat was a sheriff of Gibson County, Indiana at the turn of the 20th century noted for stopping a lynching in the county seat of Princeton
In January 1864, then US President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward laughed as Lincoln's private secretary John Hay read aloud from the book. [15] The book has been cited as one example of many diversions that Lincoln used to lighten his heart and mind from the weight of the US Civil War and his cabinet's political ...
Quip (software), a collaborative productivity software suite for mobile and the Web; Quip (company), an American oral hygiene startup; Quip (wit), a form of wit; Acyl-homoserine-lactone acylase, an enzyme also known as QuiP; Exxon Qwip, one of the first commercial fax machines; Quad in-line package, or QUIP, an electronic device package