1219 ordspråk av Mark Twain

US  Mark Twain

Mark Twain föddes den 30 november 1835 och dog den 21 april 1910 - US Writer
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 The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

 The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's

 The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.

 The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

 The English are mentioned in the Bible: Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth

 The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

 The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book -- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice.

 The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

 The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

 The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity

 The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

 The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

 The funerals of these, ... do not occur often enough.

 The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.

 The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.


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