Mark Twain: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 9)

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”

“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”

“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”

“Comparison is the death of joy.”

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

“Write what you know.”

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”

“Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

“There isn’t time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”

“Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.”

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”