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 large matter
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.
blessed fixed imagination matter
It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed
again enters healthy matter morals soul white
No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pot-marked soul
books books-and-reading great matter measured style weighed
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer
matter way
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
loyalty business-success matter
The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
laughing matter jokes
A German joke is no laughing matter.
may matter spirit
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
horse people matter
People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to them—who have the organ of hope preposterously developed—who are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperament—who never feel concerned about the price of corn—and who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a picture—are very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power.
beautiful matter faces
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.
mother matter becoming
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.
departed matter would-be
If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.
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.
blood brain brains descend gray heartfelt honor matter moving red rushes welcome
A most moving and pulse-stirring honor - the heartfelt grope of the hand, and the welcome that does not descend from the pale, gray matter of the brain but rushes up with the red blood of the heart