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
dizzy height led longer man nose reaches wisdom
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose
dizzy height lead longer man reaches wisdom
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
frozen inch longer
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death.
dog long lost
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
gambling long whiskey
It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
cutting thinking long-ago
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.
running college long
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
new-york long paper
The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.
feet long yards
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
time writing long
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
hunting long waiting
I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.
inspirational long lasts
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
men long satisfaction
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
giving-up taken long
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.