A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"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."
"Go to bed early get up early-this is wise."
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
"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."