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
banker begins fellow lends minute rain shining sun umbrella wants
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
banker begins fellow lends minute shining sun umbrella wants
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
race want doe
Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?
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.
heaven want bermuda
You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.
abundance-of-love giving want
If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.
reading want classic
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
heart want gaps
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.
spiritual greed want
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
everyday want action
Do something everyday that you don't want to do.
moon men want
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
mistake apples want
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
girl knives want
I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.
nice writing want
When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.