Quotes from Mark Twain

Harry would take off his coat, remove his cravat, roll up his shirt-sleeves, give his curly hair the right touch before the glass, get out his book on engineering, his boxes of instruments, his drawing paper, his profile paper, open the book of logarithms, mix his India ink, sharpen his pencils, light a cigar, and sit down at the table to lay out a line, with the most grave notion that he was mastering the details of engineering.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get Him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

Wir sollten darauf achten, einer Erfahrung nur so viel Weisheit zu entnehmen, wie in ihr steckt - mehr nicht; damit wir nicht der Katze gleichen, die sich auf eine heiße Herdplatte setzte. Sie setzt sich nie wieder auf eine heiße Herdplatte - und das ist richtig; aber sie setzt sich auch nie wieder auf eine kalte.

La diferencia entre la palabra acertada y la palabra casi acertada es la que hay entre la luz de un rayo y una luciérnaga.

Yes, she was a poem, she was a dream, she was a spirit...

Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms.

Tom. Looky-here, Tom, being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Wenn du die Wahrheit sagst, brauchst du kein gutes Gedächtnis.

Rzeczywisto?? prze?ciga wszelk? fantazj?, bo fantazja musi si? jednak liczy? z jakim? prawdopodobie?stwem.

me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake

Among other common lies, we have the _silent_ lie--the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.

We are waenkkd , hj

We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.

It seemed to him that life was but a trouble at best, and he more than half envied Jimmy Hodges, so lately released; it must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more. If he only had a clean Sunday-school record he could be willing to go, and be done with it all.

KiÅŸinin kafas? ve kalbi boÅŸsa, karn? tok olmuÅŸ, neye yarar ! Bugün öÄŸrendiklerimi hep akl?mda tutacak, ald???m dersi hiç unutmayacak, halk?m? bu s?k?nt?lardan kurtaraca??m. Ne de olsa insan?n kalbini yumuÅŸatan da, içine iyilik ve cömertlik a??layan da bilgi deÄŸil mi ? / Çal?nan Taç / The Prince and the Pauper

Tom Canty, splendidly arrayed, mounted a prancing war-steed

Un pauvre garçon qui n'avait rien d'autre à proposer alla jusqu'à dire, avec une fierté manifeste à ce souvenir : « Eh bien, moi, une fois, Tom Sawyer m'a battu ! »

Giving up smoking is easy… I've done it hundreds of times

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own Heaven to be happy." "Perfectly correct," says he.  "Did you imagine the same heaven would suit all sorts of men?

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

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

There is no way of accounting for people. You have to take them as they are.

Había una canción en todos los corazones; y si el corazón era joven, la canción asomaba a los labios.

appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present