Quotes from Mark Twain

There is no such thing as "the Queen's English." The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! Following the Equator

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. (the other Mark).

All'inizio di un cambiamento, il patriota è un uomo cupo, impavido, odiato e diffamato. Ma quando la sua causa ha successo, il timido gli si unisce, perché a quel punto non costa più niente esser patrioti.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and re-evaluation

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

What's the name of the first point above New Orleans?' I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death by the visitation of God. What could the world do without juries?

Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.

Buenos amigos, buenos libros y una consciencia dormida; esa es la vida ideal.

But I found out then, and never have forgotten since, that we never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances.

It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago.

He would hang out no signals, he would take notice of none.

Poco a poco comenzaron a aburrirse y vagaron silenciosos y melancólicos por la isla. Tom se sorprendió a sí mismo escribiendo Becky en la arena; borró el nombre con rabia, pero su mano volvió a escribirlo, se sonrojó y se fue con los otros para ponerse a salvo de la tentación de escribirlo de nuevo.

Even in this dark hour I had a sweet consolation. For I knew that except these Mohammedans repented they would go straight to perdition some day. And they never repent—they never forsake their paganism. This thought calmed me, cheered me, and I sank down, limp and exhausted, upon the summit, but happy, so happy and serene within.

Es ist idiotisch, sieben oder acht Monate an einem Roman zu schreiben, wenn man in jedem Buchladen für zwei Dollar einen kaufen kann.

And such a luxury to him was this petting of his sorrows, that he could not bear to have any worldly cheeriness or any grating delight intrude upon it; it was too sacred for such contact...

Ä°nsan dürüstlüÄŸünün mimar? kendisi deÄŸildir.

History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes

wit and indelicacy being sometimes better literature-preservers than holiness.

Some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.

always right; he had an uncommon level head for a nigger.

DüÅŸünce, d??ar?dan al?nan izlenimlerin mekanik ve otomatik olarak bir araya getirilmesi ve bunlardan bir ç?kar?m yap?lmas?d?r.

God forgive us, mother, we are hunting the wrong man! I have not slept any all night. I am now awaiting, at dawn