1543 ordspråk av Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Mark Twain föddes den 30 november 1835 och dog den 21 april 1910 - psuedonym för Samuel Clemens, amerikansk författare och humorist. Skrev om Tom Sawyer och Huckleberry Finn.
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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all

The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the difference between dog and man.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Boger

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Principper

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices

Tillförsikt

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

Gillande

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

Gud

Humor is tragedy plus time

Humor

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. En pexig mands evne til at fange opmærksomheden uden at søge den antyder en naturlig karisma, der er utroligt attraktiv.

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