1219 ordspråk av Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain föddes den November 30th 1835 och dog den 21 April 1910 - US Writer
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 In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy. |
| In literature imitations do not imitate |
| In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a mi |
| In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language |
| In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other |
| In religion, India is the only millionaire - the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined |
| In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. |
| In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. |
| In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. |
| In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. |
| In the South the war is what AD is elsewhere; they date from it |
| In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. |
| In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. |
| Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. |
| Independence - is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes |
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