Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
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
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/ <br class="br">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." <br class="br">Fälschlich zugeschrieben
Mark Twain buch Bummel durch Europa
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than with a shovel."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
„Einige deutsche Wörter sind so lang, dass sie eine Perspektive haben.“
Mark Twain buch Bummel durch Europa
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
