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
Mark Twain livre Tom Sawyer Abroad
Source: Tom Sawyer Abroad
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”
Mark Twain livre The Innocents Abroad
Source: The Innocents Abroad (1869), Ch. 7
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”
Mark Twain in Eruption: Hitherto Unpublished Pages About Men and Events (1940) edited by Bernard DeVoto
Mark Twain livre Pudd'nhead Wilson
Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
Variante: If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.
“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Variante: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”
Source: Notebook
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 346
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
