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
blend father man mind mother perfect
By his father he is English, by his mother he is American - to my mind the blend which makes the perfect man
girl boys mind
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.
men civilization mind
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.
clothes mind sometimes
The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
mind naked world
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.
house mind rooms
The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.
country mind deities
There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
mind ethics-and-morals morality
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.
sweet years mind
The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.
real mind passing-away
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
heart mind letters
The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...
men mind courses
Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.