Mark Twain: Aktuelle Zitate (seite 2)
Die Aktuelle Zitate von Mark Twain · Lesen Sie die neuesten Zitate in der Sammlung„Der Bericht über meinen Tod war eine Übertreibung.“
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
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays 1852-1890
Original engl.: "If another citizen preferred to toy with death, and buy health in small parcels, to bribe death with a sugar pill to stay away, or go to the grave with all the original sweetners undrenched out of him, then the individual adopted the like »cures like« system, and called in a homeopath physician as being a pleasant friend of death's."
Andere
„Zuerst schuf Gott die Idioten. Das war zur Übung. Dann schuf er die Schulverwaltung.“
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.
„Man muss die Tatsachen kennen, bevor man sie verdrehen kann.“
Überliefert durch Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, Brief 37
Original engl.: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them."
Andere
More Maxims of Mark, posthum veröffentlicht v. Merle Johnson, Privatdruck, New York 1927.
Original engl.: "Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
Andere
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 12
Original engl.: "October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, conclusion