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
biography buttons cannot clothes himself man written
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written
clothes died false modesty
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.
clothes study language
I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.
clothes mind sometimes
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
optimistic clothes dreamer
Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.
fashion clothes modesty
Modesty died when clothes were born.
clothes arbitrary use
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.
sea clothes noon
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.
fashion clothes modesty
Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.
clothes doe citizens
The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
hunting clothes dolls
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.
thinking clothes political
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.
clothes reason
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.
men clothes crow
A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.