Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"This poor little one-horse town."
"I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience."
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
"You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there."
"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."