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
race body enough
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
literature improvement enough
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
good-enough catfish fishes
The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone
thinking compliment enough
I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.
god enough made
Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.
luck target enough
It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.
men speaks-out enough
There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.
able enough undertaker
I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.
too-much enough
Too much is just enough.
looks enough theory
There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.
believe men enough
I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.
learning trouble wages
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
against dog home mama pack time trunk turns wife
When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama
convict conviction known man people settled
When a man is known to have no settled convictions of his own he can't convict other people