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.
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.
apples want sake
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
men want worst
The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.
natural clock wanted
I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.
men religion want
What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.
law insanity want
Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.
lying want caught
You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.
breathing luck want
The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
future want ifs
If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.
thinking long want
That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
eight looks want
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.