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
almost boarding defend fight heard house man salt war worthy
Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house
house ought room swear
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in
house mind rooms
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
somewhere-else advice household-chores
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
house hatred enthusiasm
I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.
house taxes profanity
I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes.
beer house empty
The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
humorous house rooms
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
heart eye house
To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.
home house may
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
people judging house
No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.
house speak unchristian
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.
broken house purpose
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.
blow wind house
Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows