Mark Twain: Idézetek angolul (oldal 17)

“Well, everybody does it that way, Huck."
"Tom, I am not everybody.”

“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”

“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.”

“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends”

“You can't throw too much style into a miracle.”

“Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”

“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”

“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”

“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

“…I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.”

“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”

“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”

“He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.”

“I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.”

“It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”