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
adversity easily endure trying
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
lie lies-and-lying run six truth trying
A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
certain circumstance denied desperate furnishes profanity relief trying urgent
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
hands comforting trying
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
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.
discovery interesting trying
If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.
writing trying do-you-know
The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.
grateful long trying
A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
trying half virtue
None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.
thinking trying sentimental
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.
writing trying boards
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
character men trying
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
men perfection trying
....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
dream trying want
A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.