Quotes from Mark Twain

And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up and banners flying, at the other end of it; had elected itself to be the Nation, and these innumerable clams had permitted it so long that they had come at last to accept it as a truth; and not only that, but to believe it right and as it should be.

Uvjerio sam se, naime, o neoborivoj ?injenici da nijedan narod na svijetu, kraj svih ljubaznih, praznih rije?i, filozofiranja o protivnom, još nikada nije stekao svoju slobodu dobro?udnim brbljanjem i moralnim uvjeravanjem: nepromjenjivi je zakon da sve revolucije koje žele imati uspjeha moraju po?eti u krvi, bez obzira na to što ?e biti poslije.

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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little." Mark Twain

Le romancier qui écrit une histoire d'adulte sait exactement où et comment s'arrêter, c'est le plus souvent par un mariage. Quand il s'agit d'un enfant, il s'arrête où il peut.

Cumplamos la tarea de vivir de tal modo que cuando muramos, incluso el de la funeraria lo sienta

If one keep to the things he knows, and not trouble about the things which he cannot be sure about, he will have the steadier mind for it.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

he's my own dead sister's boy, poor thing, and I ain't got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.

The captain has been telling how, in one of his Arctic voyages, it was so cold that the mate's shadow froze fast to the deck and had to be ripped loose by main strength. And even then he got only about two-thirds of it back.

Credit, that rare bird of security and peace, rested with none, but stood with upraised wings, ready to fly off at the first rumor of suspicion.

Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçus par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.

Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me.

will masturbate until he hath enrich'd whole acres with his seed.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured ... in India only.

He tenido miles de problemas en mi vida, la mayoría de los cuales nunca sucedieron en realidad

That is the new miracle, and the greatest of all–Automatic Law!

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Well, I don't quite know about that, sir. I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I—" "Would you?" exclaimed the young lady. "We've got one! Would you try that one? Will you?

There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

All that evening I sat by my fire at the Warwick Arms, steeped in a dream of the olden time, while the rain beat upon the windows, and the wind roared about the eaves and corners.

kind. It was the most singular, and almost the most touching and melancholy exile that fancy can imagine.—One of

Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside of her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chickens was—and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments;

They swore in the jury, and then the lawyer for the prostitution got up and begun.