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
two bird firsts
If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.
religious firsts ass
Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
age may firsts
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
heart firsts appearance
My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.
people firsts world
The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.
past firsts good-times
What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
character firsts assuming
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.
inspiration firsts twenties
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
school firsts half
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.
firsts reason
You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
firsts boers kicks
First catch your Boer, then kick him.
regret rome firsts
Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.
people sass firsts
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.
sick firsts so-sick
Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.