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
marriage perceived sudden
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
marriage military ulyssess-grant
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
marriage girl advice
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
love marriage love-is
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
marriage running heart
What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
love marriage wedding
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
friendship happiness marriage
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
marriage men race
God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
marriage promise welcome
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
marriage men wife
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
love marriage wisdom
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
marriage tragedy felicity
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
anniversary marriage wedding
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
marriage husband wife
If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base