Mark Twain: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 12)

“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.”

“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”

“I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.”

“If books are not good company, where shall I find it?”

“I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.”

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer them, or turn them into literature.”

“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”

“When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.”

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”

“Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.”

“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.”

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.”

“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.”

“Every person is a book, each year a chapter”

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”

“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”