The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Weitere Zitate von Mark Twain
Zum Autor"The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving."
"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."
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.']."
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."
"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."