The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
Mark TwainMark Twain.
"The truth should never be permitted to stand in the way of a good story.
People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.
Mark TwainTag: inspirational-success-failure
Wenn dein einziges Werkzeug ein Hammer ist, wirst du jedes Problem als Nagel betrachten.
Mark TwainI waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in
Mark TwainMore men go to church than want to.
Mark TwainTag: religion
Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: " 'I don't know anything about this man. At least I know only two things; one is, he hasn't been in the penitentiary, and the other is (after a pause, and almost sadly), I don't know why.
Mark TwainTag: humor
Però non si ammazzano le donne. Le tieni prigioniere, ma non le ammazzi. Sono sempre belle, e ricche, e spaventatissime. Ti prendi i loro orologini e gli altri ciondoli, ma devi sempre toglierti il cappello e parlare
in modo educato. Non c’è gente più bene educata dei banditi... puoi leggerlo in qualsiasi libro. Be’, insomma, le donne finiscono per innamorarsi di te e, dopo che sono state nella grotta per una settimana o due, la smettono di frignare, e in seguito non riusciresti più a convincerle ad andarsene. Se le scacciassi, si volterebbero, a un certo punto, e tornerebbero indietro. Succede così in tutti i libri.
Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles.
Mark TwainTag: humor language travel french france
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
Mark TwainTag: worry
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