Quotes from Mark Twain

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

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Tom was General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other. These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person—that being better suited to the still smaller fry—but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp.

You don't know about me without you have read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain't no matter.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Board, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

gathering resolution; took in a big breath and began. When he entered the kitchen presently, with both eyes shut and groping for the towel with his hands, an honorable testimony of suds and water was dripping from his

Everything was dead quiet, and it looked late, and smelt late. You know what I mean–I don't know the words to put it in.

Among the prisoners were a number of priests, and Joan took these under her protection and saved their lives. It was urged that they were most probably combatants in disguise, but she said: 'As to that, how can any tell? They wear the livery of God, and if even one of these wears it rightfully, surely it were better that all the guilty should escape than that we have upon our hands the blood of that innocent man. I will lodge them where I lodge, and feed them, and sent them away in safety.

Writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we 'modify' before we print.

que para que alguien, hombre o muchacho, anhele alguna cosa, sólo es necesario hacerla difícil de conseguir.

Bilgewater, and so what's the use o' your bein' sour? It'll only make things oncomfortable. It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king—so what's the use to worry? Make the best o' things the way you find 'em, says I—that's my motto.

in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

A Principle, is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need

My! Dat's a mighty gay marvel, I tell you! But Mars Tom I's powerful 'fraid ole missis- And besides, if you will Ill show you my sore toe. Jim was only human-this attraction was too much for him.

I got so downhearted and scared I did wish I had some company. Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.

Oh, no, Misto C –, I hadn't had no trouble. An' no joy!

Un hombre de inteligencia sana no puede ser feliz, porque la vida es para él una realidad, y ve que es una realidad terrible. Únicamente

Good books, good friends, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Ljudska vrsta ima samo jedno zaista delotvorno oružje, a to je osmeh. Kada osmeh krene u napad ništa mu ne može odoleti.

laid my lance in rest and waited, with my heart beating, till the iron wave was just ready to break over me, then spouted a column of white smoke through the bars of my helmet.

Ah, if I had only known then that he was only a common mortal, and that his mission had nothing more overpowering about it than the collecting of seeds and uncommon yams and extraordinary cabbages and peculiar bullfrogs for that poor, useless, innocent, mildewed old fossil the Smithsonian Institute, I would have felt so much relieved.

Toda vez que você se encontrar do lado da maioria, é hora de parar e refletir.