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
dizzy height led longer man nose reaches wisdom
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose
dizzy height lead longer man reaches wisdom
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
frozen inch longer
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.
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.
long mind details
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.
years differences long
There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.
running long recipes
Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.
running thinking long
Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
truth long mind
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
thinking long want
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
heart long shapes
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
long frogs staring
If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.
grateful long trying
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
long hamlet-and-ophelia speech
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;