give an example of a great man's dying words.
He is quoted as saying he liked Joan of Arc the best.
Is not Brain Adams but Brain White the artist who made the duet with Shania Twain.
Mark Twain is the person to have been quoted saying that. However it would seem about a million people have said it since. I don't think it spoils a good walk.
give an example of a great man's dying words.
Mark Twain did not ride with the funeral party after Henry Huttleston Rogers' death because he already paid his respects privately and did not want to attract attention to himself by being part of the public display of mourning. Additionally, Mark Twain preferred solitude and distancing himself from public ceremonies.
I believe it was Brian Adams who sang duet with Shania in From This Moment.
Mark Twain found polygamy to be morally and socially reprehensible. He believed it degraded women and went against the principles of monogamous marriage. Twain often criticized the practice in his writings and speeches.
He meant that courage, tenacity and the will to fight or overcome obstacles are not limited by physical size but by "heart," or spirit. Twain was referring to people as well as dogs.
There is no record of Mark Twain saying "Honesty: the best of all the lost art." This specific quote does not appear to be attributed to him.
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It was quoted in Mark Twain, The Galaxy, Vol. 1, p. 439 but the original author is unknown.
Yes! Mark Twain was a very witty guy. This made him quite quotable. There is a book, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain, that contains a large collection of his quotes.Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.- quoted in More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927Classic: a book which people praise and don't read.- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar