Mark Twain Zitate

195 Zitate voller Witz und Weisheit von Amerikas beliebtestem Autor

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Kap. 16
Original engl.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

'Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, Ostindische Reise, 5. Februar 1896
Original engl.: "Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live."

Brief an Mary Hallock Foote, 2. Dezember 1887, veröffentlicht in "When Huck Finn Went Highbrow" <nowiki>ISBN 1-370-32642-5</nowiki>
Original engl.: "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure."
Briefe

The Lowest Animal
Original engl.: "Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight."
The Lowest Animal

Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875
Original engl.: "How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before."

Following the Equator, chapter LXI
Original engl.: "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
Following the Equator
Variante: Zuerst schuf Gott die Idioten. Das war zur Übung. Dann schuf er die Verlags-Lektoren.

Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900 CLXXXVII
Original engl.: "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash--that one is the cat.."

Concerning the Jews; in: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories; Kommentar zu einem Artikel, der die Vertreibung der Juden forderte, da 85 Prozent der Anwälte und Geschäftsleute Juden seien
Original engl.: "It was but another way of saying that in a population of 48,000,000, of whom only 500,000 were registered as Jews, eighty-five per cent of the brains and honesty of the whole was lodged in the Jews."
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Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 1969 Heft 1 S. 2 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Y00oAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=wetter. Meist angesehen als ein von Charles Dudley Warner überlieferter Ausspruch Mark Twains im Hinblick auf <br class="br">&quot;A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.&quot;<br>in einem anonym publizierten Leitartikel im Hartford Courant von 27. August 1897, dessen Redakteur Warner damals war. Am 18. November 1884 hatte es jedoch in einer Veröffentlichung der Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York http://books.google.de/books?id=SQWGAAAAIAAJ&amp;q=dudley+warner geheißen: <br class="br">&quot;your action reminded me of the observation of my old friend and partner, DUDLEY WARNER, concerning New-England weather – it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done.&quot;<br>In einem Artikel über Warner in der Zeitschrift &quot; The Book Buyer http://books.google.de/books?id=ktwRAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=+%22little+done%22&quot; las man im März 1889: <br class="br">&quot;The weather in New England,&quot; said Mr. Warner &quot;is a matter about which a great deal is said and very little done.&quot;<br>Die erste gedruckte Zuschreibung an Mark Twain erfolgte, soweit ersichtlich 1905 in Sketches of Some Early Shefford Pioneers von John Powell Noyes, p. 13 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/sketchesofsomee00noye#page/12/mode/2up/search/twain: <br class="br">There were letters printed in favor of the idea in the far away city papers, but as Mark Twain said of complaints about the weather, – &quot;Nothing was done.&quot; - nach http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/04/23/everybody-talks-about-the-weather/ <br class="br">Fälschlich zugeschrieben

Following the Equator, Kap. XII
Original engl.: "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
Following the Equator

A Tramp Abroad; Appendix D The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is. Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language

angeblich aus Old Times on the Mississippi, Atlantic Monthly 1875 http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/twainold/twain.html, erste Zuschreibung 1915 (p. 160 rechts unten) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010799206;view=1up;seq=180, fünf Jahre nach Mark Twains Tod, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/10/twain-father/ <br class="br">engl.: &quot;When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.&quot; <br class="br">Fälschlich zugeschrieben

Following the Equator, chapter LXVI.
Original engl.: "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Following the Equator

Following the Equator, chapter XXXII.
Original engl.: "The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds."
Following the Equator

A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "[…] it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language

The Late Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin in den Mund gelegt
Original engl.: "Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well."
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Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Following the Equator

Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook

Überliefert durch Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, Brief 37
Original engl.: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them."
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What is Man? / Old Man
Original engl.: "Duties are not performed for duty's SAKE, but because their NEGLECT would make the man UNCOMFORTABLE."
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, conclusion