1219 ordspråk av Mark Twain
Mark Twain
If readers recognized that he was an ass, unaware of his own stupidity, ''your work will be a triumph.
|
"Varanasi" is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together
|
'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.
|
(Twain on Cain): it was his misfortune to live in a dark age that knew not the beneficent Insanity Plea
|
. . . a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community have at heart if he would be liked . . .
|
...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.
|
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother
|
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain
|
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.
|
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime
|
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
|
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
|
A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed 'can't' be found.
|
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
|
A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
|