Mark Twain: Aktuelle Zitate

Following the Equator, chapter LVI.
Original engl.: "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
Following the Equator

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

Brief an George Bainton vom 15. Oktober 1888; veröffentlicht in "The Art of Authorship" von George Bainton
Original engl.: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."
Briefe

More Maxims of Mark, posthum veröffentlicht v. Merle Johnson, Privatdruck, New York 1927. Siehe auch:
Original engl.: "Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries."
Andere

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

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

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.."

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

Following the Equator, chapter LXIII und The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 7
Original engl.: "The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives." (Following the Equator)
Original engl.: "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives" (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
Following the Equator