A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
Mark TwainEducation: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Mark TwainMots clés education
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
Mark TwainIf we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
Mark TwainA half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
Mark TwainMots clés lies
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Mots clés humor
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
Mark TwainMots clés on-writing
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark TwainMots clés writing cleverness
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark TwainReality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Mark TwainMots clés imagination reality
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