Mark Twain: Idézetek angolul (oldal 14)

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”

“It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve”

“All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being… he can't be any worse.”

“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”

“I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.”

“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”

“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.”

“One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until
after considerable acquaintance with her.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.”

“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.”

“I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.”