In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
"Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself."
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.']."