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
history looks older together twice
Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together
achievement america far good hard looks man
...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
men looks arcs
Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.
war looks instigators
Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.
good-life age looks
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
together legends looks
Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!
writing hands looks
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
fire looks
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
tools looks nails
If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
book interesting looks
There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
hands soul looks
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.
too-much looks reader
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
looks nails hammers
To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
eight looks want
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.