A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
Mark TwainTags: humor
I can help anyone get anything they want out of life. The only problem is that I can't find anyone who knows what they want.
Mark TwainTags: inspirational
Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?—the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture!
Mark TwainTags: vocabulary
Dale a cada día la oportunidad de convertirse en el mejor día de tu vida.
Mark TwainDon't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard
Mark TwainEvery one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody
Mark TwainI was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.'
It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
Tags: autobiography death-of-a-loved-one
Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
Mark TwainEverybody has heard of the great Heidelberg Tun, and most people have seen it, no doubt. It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen hundred thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. I think it likely that one of these statements is a mistake, and the other is a lie. However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says. An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me. I do not see any wisdom in building a monster cask to hoard up emptiness in, when you can get a better quality, outside, any day, free of expense.
Mark TwainTags: twain heidelberg-tun
Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.
Mark TwainTags: manners etiquette laws etiquette-and-attitude
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