Mark Twain Zitate und Sprüche

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 2
Original engl.: "Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
„Nichts bedarf dringender der Verbesserung als die Angewohnheiten anderer Leute.“
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 15
Original engl.: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, CCII
Original engl.: "I am quite sure that […] I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no colour prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. […] All that I care to know is that a man is a human being - that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875
Original engl.: "How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before."
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
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
„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
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
Mark Twain buch Bummel durch Europa
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache (The Awful German Language)
Original engl.: "I went often to look at the collection of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and one day I surprised the keeper of it with my German. I spoke entirely in that language. He was greatly interested; and after I had talked a while he said my German was very rare, possibly a »unique«; and wanted to add it to his museum."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Christian Science, Buch II, Kap. VII, The Church Edifice
Original engl.: "Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
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Mark Twain buch Die Arglosen im Ausland
The Innocents Abroad, chapter VII. Originaltext bei Projekt Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/p1.htm#ch6 <br class="br">Original engl.: "I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." <br class="br">Andere
„Je mehr Vergnügen du an deiner Arbeit hast, desto besser wird sie bezahlt.“
Mark Twain buch Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Kap. XXVIII.
Original engl.: "The higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also."
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„Prinzipien - ein anderes Wort für Vorurteile.“
Rede auf einem Bankett des Royal Literary Fund, London, 4. Mai 1900; Mark Twain's Speeches.
Original engl.: "Principles is another name for prejudices."
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Christian Science, Buch 1, Kap. V
Original engl.: "Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles."
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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
Mark Twain, a Biography Part 2 1866-1875
Original engl.: "Some folks mistake vivacity for wit; whereas the difference between vivacity and wit is the same as the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."

„Der Hunger ist das Dienstmädchen des Genies.“
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, Kap. XLIII
Original engl.: "Hunger is the handmaid of genius."
Following the Equator
„Der Mensch ist das einzige Lebewesen, das erröten kann. Oder sollte.“
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XXVII
Original engl.: "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
Following the Equator
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XLIX
Original engl.: "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what; you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
Following the Equator
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter XVI.
Original engl.: "There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immorality and how to enjoy it."
Following the Equator
Mark Twain buch Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter LIX
Original engl.: "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
Following the Equator
„Der Mensch wurde am Ende der Wochenarbeit erschaffen, als Gott bereits müde war.“
Notebook, 19. März 1903; in Mark Twain, a Biography Part 3 1900-1907
Original engl.: "Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
Notebook
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."
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Ansprache an Medizinstudenten während seines Aufenthalts in Berlin zum Ende des Jahres 1891 <br class="br">Original engl.: "I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language." -Chapter XXI „European Residence“. Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p.219 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/completeworksofm22twai#page/218/mode/2up/search/berlin <br class="br">Notebook
„Jeder redet über das Wetter, aber keiner tut etwas dagegen.“
Überliefert durch Charles D. Warner im Hartford Courant, 27. August 1897
„Mit Führer zu reisen ist ein Segen, ohne einen zu reisen ist das Gegenteil.“
Mark Twain buch Bummel durch Europa
A Tramp Abroad, Kap. XXXII
Original engl.: "To travel with a courier is bliss, to travel without one is the reverse."
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„Was wäre die Menschheit ohne die Frauen? Rar, sehr rar.“
Woman - an Opinion; Rede vor dem Washington Correspondents' Club, in: Mark Twain's Speeches
Original engl.: "What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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Mark Twain buch Knallkopf Wilson
Querkopf Wilson. Deutsch von Margarete Jacobi (1923) Kapitel 5, letzter Satz (Proben aus Querkopf Wilsons Kalender). http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/querkopf-wilson-6001/6
Original engl.: "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
