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 lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"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."
"In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
"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."
"Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving."