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
gets mind patches result together
Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result - such as it is
belly books-and-reading bread full mind shall shelter starved teachings worth
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved
attitude mind make-up-your-mind
You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.
mean thinking mind
What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.
long mind details
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.
girl boys mind
There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.
mind gorges trouble
Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.
wisdom mind trying
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
men mind nasty
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
spiritual men mind
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.
simplicity mind literature
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
class tyrants mind
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.
heart soul mind
The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
truth believe mind
But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.