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
children littles charity
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
new-year dozen littles
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
money littles wealth
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
religious religion littles
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
life thinking littles
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
real literature littles
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
christian children littles
For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.
names littles minutes
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
dog men littles
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.
weather littles done
A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.
truth opportunity littles
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
mind littles belly
a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.
ties stupidity littles
He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.
growing littles matter
It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.