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
giving-up taken long
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
boys apples giving
There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.
distance california giving
All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.
glasses giving hypocrisy
I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.
civilization giving darkness
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?
vanity giving advice
He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
sex men giving
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.
pain giving conscience
Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.
names giving constellations
Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.
perseverance giving-up years
That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.
humble turkeys giving
Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.
smell giving lavender
Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it
memories giving tongue
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
practice giving opinion
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.