A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it."
"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"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."
"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."
"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."