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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 An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. |
| An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces |
| An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often picturesque liar |
| An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere |
| An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war |
| An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect |
| An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing |
| And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows! |
| Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. |
| Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes. |
| Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary |
| Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it. |
| Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment. |
| Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first |
| Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. |
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