Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may."
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"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."
"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."