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
writing perfect done
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.
hard-work organization done
You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
country apology done
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
spiritual doubt done
When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.
addiction smoking done
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.
san-francisco gone done
I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.
doe done englishmen
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
play chess done
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
wish done rewards
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
done violent interest
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done.
memories lines done
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.
mean sleep done
Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.
weather littles done
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.
writing men done
Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.