Mark Twain citations célèbres
Mark Twain Citations
There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
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All schools, all colleges, have 2 great functions: to confer, & to conceal, valuable knowledge.
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“La vérité est la chose la plus précieuse que nous avons. Il nous faut l'économiser.”
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive the dead, but God does not.
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
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What God lacks is convictions -stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something, -not try to be everything.
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“Il n'y a eu qu'un chrétien. Ils l'ont attrapé et crucifié – tôt.”
There has only been one Christian. They caught him & crucified him -early.
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Variante: Dans vingt ans, vous serez plus déçu par les choses que vous n'avez pas faites que par celles que vous avez faites. Alors sortez des sentiers battus. Mettez les voiles. Explorez. Rêvez. Découvrez.
“La charité nous force à tirer le rideau sur le reste de cette scène.”
Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain: Citations en anglais
“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
Mark Twain livre Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXXIX
Following the Equator (1897)
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 115
Mark Twain livre Pudd'nhead Wilson
Variante: December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=qCDpAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Fame+is+a+vapor+popularity+an+accident+the+only+earthly+certainty+is+oblivion%22&pg=PA114#v=onepage <br class="br">Mark Twain's Notebook (1935)
The Refuge of the Derelicts (unpublished manuscript written 1905–1906) <br class="br">Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=uLfR7-ETm0MC&pg=PA326&dq=%22every+man+is+a+moon%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMIn_iGm83gyAIVTedjCh0LwAap#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 2
Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Ch. 21
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.”
Misattributed <br class="br">Variante: Don’t believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. <br class="br">Source: Often attributed to Twain, but sourced to Robert J. Burdette, Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/06/world-owes/
“Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.”
Source: Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 381
Mark Twain livre The Innocents Abroad
Source: The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain livre Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer
Variante: 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.
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Ch. 22.
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“It's not as bad as it sounds.”
Mark Twain livre Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”
Mark Twain livre The Prince and the Pauper
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
