Mark Twain: Idézetek angolul (oldal 16)

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

“How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.”

“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”

“Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.”

“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”

“I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.”

“I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.”

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”

“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.”

“It is higher and nobler to be kind.”

“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

“Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.”