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
boys children half nine
We have nine children now half boys and half girls.
chance half hell
He would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one
century ghosts great half
Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?
halfway lie putting shoes travel truth
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes
thinking physicians half
A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.
determination half succeed
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.
brooklyn half praise
Brooklyn praise is half slander.
other-half phantoms wells
We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.
hardship half care
It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
dresses half charm
Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.
school firsts half
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
trying half virtue
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.
railroads benefits half
Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.
evil half good-intentions
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.