The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
"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."
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"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."