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
asked bad comment critics-and-criticism maybe music richard sounds
Maybe it's not as bad as it sounds (when asked to comment on the music of Richard Wagner)
men may habit
A man may have no bad habits and have worse
heaven doubt may
We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.
may hills prosperity
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
age may firsts
It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
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.
home house may
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
men hands may
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
heaven may swear
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed
together may telephones
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
fear atheism may
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
wisdom may unexamined-life
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
god heaven may
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
may possibility happened
It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.