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
real heart youth
The heart is the real fountain of youth.
travel real grateful
I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.
real yellow gold
The real yellow peril: Gold.
sarcastic jobs real
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
truth real gentleman
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
death real graves
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
friendship inspirational-life real-friends
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
real mind passing-away
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
memories reality thinking
When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
integrity real carpe-diem
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
life reality imagination
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
country real care
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .
real ideas essentials
What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?
real drinking men
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.