Mark Twain, Собрание сочинений в восьми томах Quotes
You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.
Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.
It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden
