Zitate von Mark Twain

Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 1969 Heft 1 S. 2 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Y00oAAAAMAAJ&q=wetter. Meist angesehen als ein von Charles Dudley Warner überlieferter Ausspruch Mark Twains im Hinblick auf
"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it."
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&q=dudley+warner geheißen:
"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."
In einem Artikel über Warner in der Zeitschrift " The Book Buyer http://books.google.de/books?id=ktwRAAAAYAAJ&q=+%22little+done%22" las man im März 1889:
"The weather in New England," said Mr. Warner "is a matter about which a great deal is said and very little done."
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:
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, – "Nothing was done." - nach http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/04/23/everybody-talks-about-the-weather/
Fälschlich zugeschrieben

Christian Science, Buch 1, Kap. V
Original engl.: "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles."
Andere

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/
engl.: "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."
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Following the Equator, chapter XLIX
Original engl.: "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what; you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
Following the Equator

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

New York Journal, 2. Juni 1897
Original engl.: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."; meist zitiert als: "The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated."
Mark Twain, a Biography