Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
"Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness."
"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."
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."