Quotes from Mark Twain

Siempre que veas que te encuentras del lado de la mayoría, es el momento de reformarse, o hacer una pausa y reflexionar

no people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood, whatever may answer afterward. If

just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Make the best o' things the way you find 'em..

ostentatiously

Slavery was dead and gone; all men were equal before the law; taxation had been equalized. The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. We had a steamboat or two on the Thames, we had steam warships, and the beginnings of a steam commercial marine; I was getting ready to send out an expedition to discover America.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants is back the minute it begins to rain.

Even I feel a drawing toward him—the paternal blood in me making its claim. How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature—the most of them, in fact!

Vicdan?m?z baÅŸkalar?na verilen ac?n?n hiç fark?na varmaz, ta ki bize de ac? verdiÄŸi bir noktaya ulaÅŸana dek. Ä°stisnas?z her olayda bir baÅŸkas?n?n ac?s?na tamamen ilgisizizdir, ta ki onun çektiÄŸi ac? bizi rahats?z edene dek.

We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.

think you are wrong in saying we ought to follow the methods of Sherlock Holmes. We ought rather to follow Dupin, Poe's detective, the man who preceded Sherlock Holmes.

Las monarquías, las aristocracias y las religiones se hallan todas basadas en ese enorme defecto de vuestra raza, a saber: la desconfianza que cada cual siente de su convecino, y su deseo, por propia seguridad o comodidad, de hacer buen papel ante los ojos de ese convecino.

the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a-man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bill like everything.

Presently he turned to me and said, just as one might speak of the weather, or any other common matter— You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs—and bodies? I said I had not heard of it.

Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. - Mark Twain

The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. St. Luke is careful not to commit himself; he does not say it is the street which is straight, but the "street which is called Straight." It is a fine piece of irony; it is the only facetious remark in the Bible, I believe.

depuis la petite Estelle dont les dents commençaient à pousser, jusqu'au vieux Bonnemort en train de perdre les siennes

When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. - The Prince and the Pauper

In the case of the highest official in the Congo, the man who corresponds in Africa to Lord Curzon in India, no sooner was he placed in possession of the conclusions of the Commission than the appalling significance of their indictment convinced him that the game was up, and he went into his room and cut his throat.

Wszyscy narzekamy na pogod?, ale nikt palcem nie kiwnie, aby j? zmieni?

The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.

My acquaintance smiled—not a modern smile, but one that must have gone out of general use many, many centuries ago—and muttered apparently to himself: Wit ye well, I saw it done .  Then, after a pause, added: I did it myself. By the time I had recovered from the electric surprise of this remark, he was gone. All that evening I sat by my fire at the Warwick Arms, steeped in a dream of the olden time

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.