The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand."
"I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience."
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
"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."
"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."