Quotes from Mark Twain

You can't resurrect a dead nation without it; there isn't any way.

A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

What a head for just a boy to have! If I had Tom Sawyer's head, I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of.

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the 'what is next' of our lives. Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Her religion made her inwardly content and joyous; and

The two testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The old one gives us a picture of these people's deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

None of us could _live_ with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

We made many trips to the lake after that, and had many a hair-breadth escape and blood-curdling adventure which will never be recorded in any history. Chapter

In these were gathered together the brightest young minds I could find, and I kept agents out raking the country for more, all the time. I was training a crowd of ignorant folk into experts—experts in every sort of handiwork and scientific calling.

What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges! I

Wol? i?? do piek?a ni? do nieba, gdy? w tym pierwszym znale?li si? wszyscy ciekawi ludzie.

Klasyka, to to, co wszyscy chcieliby przeczyta? i czego nikt nie czyta.

Descobrira,sem o saber,uma lei que rege a Humanidade e que é:para que um homem ou um rapaz cobice uma cobice uma coisa,basta tornar essa coisa difícil de obter.

The saying is old that truth should not be spoken at all times; and those whom a sick conscience worries into habitual violation of the maxim are imbeciles and nuisances.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did.

Aylakl???n nimetlerine yüz çevirip, bizlere çal??ma lanetini kazand?ran Adem'e ÅŸükranlar?m?z? sunal?m!

Zanim przyjechaÅ'em [do Niemiec], nie wiedziaÅ'em, po co istnieje wieczno??. Teraz ju? wiem. By niektórym z nas da? szansÄ™ nauczenia siÄ™ niemieckiego. SÄ…dzÄ™, ?e tylko Bóg jest w stanie przeczyta? niemieckÄ… gazetÄ™.

Colocó a los personajes en las situaciones más extraordinarias, les hizo realizar los actos más sorprendentes y puso en sus bocas el más extraño lenguaje. Sin embargo, no hay modo de poder describir el capítulo. Era de una locura simétrica; era de un absurdo artístico, y llevaba notas explicativas al pie que igualaban en rareza al texto.

God Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's all right, or He'd 'a' fixed it some other way.

The quality of mercy . . . is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. it becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown. Merchant of Venice

Everybody lies--every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception--and purposely. Even in sermons--but that is a platitude.

clear amber, old-ivory white, new-ivory white, fish-belly white—this latter the leprous complexion frequent with the Anglo-Saxon long resident in tropical climates.

Now and then a division-agent was really obliged to shoot a hostler through the head to teach him some simple matter that he could have taught him with a club if his circumstances and surroundings had been different. But they were snappy, able men, those division-agents, and when they tried to teach a subordinate anything, that subordinate generally got it through his head.