Everybody talks about the weather, Mark Twain famously wrote, but nobody does anything about it.
Mark Twain has a hundred and fifty-three quotations, Oscar Wilde a hundred and twenty-three.
We're about to meet some people who have reason to note the words of Mark Twain.
Mark Twain, our first post-modernist, even took the time to satirize the experience in Innocents Abroad.
Mark Twain knew this when he was newspaper editor at the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.
But are the figures accurate - or to borrow from Mark Twain - "damned lies"?
In 1910, author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut.
Geographically, Mark Twain's home state embodies characteristics of almost all the rest of the country.
Recreational traffic was halted, too, including the Mark Twain Riverboat that offers excursions at scenic Hannibal, Mo.
He also won the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for humour in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
Far from the oil patch, Kinder grew up in the land of Mark Twain, paper route and all.
Mark Twain, when he was editor of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Nevada, was known for his outlandish stories.
To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain, everybody talks about the national debt, but nobody does anything about it.
He also won the Kennedy Center's second Mark Twain Prize for Humor in 1999, a year after Richard Pryor.
History doesn't repeat itself, but Mark Twain reminds us that it sometimes rhymes.
Bogle is also erudite, sprinkling the text with references to the likes of Mark Twain, Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton.
But of course we turn to the godfather, Mark Twain, who has said a couple of wonderful things about fathers.
With a title drawn from the work of Mark Twain, the album tells tales of love, death, betrayal and even baseball.
Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in 1889 cleverly explains his hero's Camelot journey as a hazy dream.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, it's the difference between lightning bugs and lighting.
When Mark Twain was editor of the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, he was known for having wild stories.
As Mark Twain noted, history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Mark Twain was a pretty good stock pundit, which is why I named one of my thrillers The Twain Maxim after him.
Kensal Rise Library, in north-west London, was opened by American author Mark Twain in 1900 on land donated by All Souls College.
How would, say Mark Twain, handle an iPhone or a text?
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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Burnett will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Oct. 20 in Washington.
When Mark Twain said, "We have the best government that money can buy, " I suspect he said it with sarcasm, and some disgust.
Even in the 1980s, subscriptions were still sold door-to-door, just as they were100 years earlier, when Mark Twain came out with a new book.
The movie belongs to the teenage buddies as much as to the title character, and echoes of Mark Twain are neither accidental nor incidental.
Winters, who was widely admired by comedians in general, was awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- which goes to outstanding humorists -- in 1999.
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