Werk
Ein Yankee am Hofe des König Artus
Mark TwainChristian Science
Mark TwainConcerning the Jews
Mark TwainRoughing It
Mark TwainKnallkopf Wilson
Mark TwainMark Twain Berühmte Zitate
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Kap. 16
Original engl.: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Zitate über Leben von Mark Twain
'Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900, Ostindische Reise, 5. Februar 1896
Original engl.: "Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live."
Brief an Mary Hallock Foote, 2. Dezember 1887, veröffentlicht in "When Huck Finn Went Highbrow" <nowiki>ISBN 1-370-32642-5</nowiki>
Original engl.: "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, then success is sure."
Briefe
Zitate über Menschen von Mark Twain
The Lowest Animal
Original engl.: "Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight."
The Lowest Animal
Mark Twain: Aktuelle Zitate
„Zuerst schuf Gott die Idioten. Das war zur Übung. Dann schuf er die Schulverwaltung.“
Following the Equator, chapter LXI
Original engl.: "In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards."
Following the Equator
Variante: Zuerst schuf Gott die Idioten. Das war zur Übung. Dann schuf er die Verlags-Lektoren.
Mark Twain Zitate und Sprüche
„Der Bericht über meinen Tod war eine Übertreibung.“
New York Journal, 2. Juni 1897
Original engl.: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."; meist zitiert als: "The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated."
Mark Twain, a Biography
Mark Twain, a Biography volume II Part 2 1886-1900 CLXXXVII
Original engl.: "Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash--that one is the cat.."
„Glauben heißt auf etwas zu vertrauen, von dem du weißt, dass es nicht existiert.“
Following the Equator, Kap. XII
Original engl.: "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
Following the Equator
A Tramp Abroad; Appendix D The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "A person who has not studied German can form no idea of what a perplexing language it is. Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Concerning the Jews; in: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and other Stories; Kommentar zu einem Artikel, der die Vertreibung der Juden forderte, da 85 Prozent der Anwälte und Geschäftsleute Juden seien
Original engl.: "It was but another way of saying that in a population of 48,000,000, of whom only 500,000 were registered as Jews, eighty-five per cent of the brains and honesty of the whole was lodged in the Jews."
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„Alle Welt schimpft auf das Wetter, aber niemand tut etwas dagegen.“
Zeitschrift für das gesamte Kreditwesen, 1969 Heft 1 S. 2 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=Y00oAAAAMAAJ&q=wetter. Meist angesehen als ein von Charles Dudley Warner überlieferter Ausspruch Mark Twains im Hinblick auf
"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it."
in einem anonym publizierten Leitartikel im Hartford Courant von 27. August 1897, dessen Redakteur Warner damals war. Am 18. November 1884 hatte es jedoch in einer Veröffentlichung der Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York http://books.google.de/books?id=SQWGAAAAIAAJ&q=dudley+warner geheißen:
"your action reminded me of the observation of my old friend and partner, DUDLEY WARNER, concerning New-England weather – it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done."
In einem Artikel über Warner in der Zeitschrift " The Book Buyer http://books.google.de/books?id=ktwRAAAAYAAJ&q=+%22little+done%22" las man im März 1889:
"The weather in New England," said Mr. Warner "is a matter about which a great deal is said and very little done."
Die erste gedruckte Zuschreibung an Mark Twain erfolgte, soweit ersichtlich 1905 in Sketches of Some Early Shefford Pioneers von John Powell Noyes, p. 13 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/sketchesofsomee00noye#page/12/mode/2up/search/twain:
There were letters printed in favor of the idea in the far away city papers, but as Mark Twain said of complaints about the weather, – "Nothing was done." - nach http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/04/23/everybody-talks-about-the-weather/
Fälschlich zugeschrieben
angeblich aus Old Times on the Mississippi, Atlantic Monthly 1875 http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/twainold/twain.html, erste Zuschreibung 1915 (p. 160 rechts unten) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015010799206;view=1up;seq=180, fünf Jahre nach Mark Twains Tod, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/10/10/twain-father/
engl.: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Fälschlich zugeschrieben
„Jeder ist ein Mond und hat eine dunkle Seite, die er niemandem zeigt.“
Following the Equator, chapter LXVI.
Original engl.: "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
Following the Equator
„Jemand mit einer neuen Idee gilt so lange als Spinner, bis sich die Sache durchgesetzt hat.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXXII.
Original engl.: "The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds."
Following the Equator
Notebook, 1894
Original engl.: "If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
Notebook
What is Man? / Old Man
Original engl.: "Duties are not performed for duty's SAKE, but because their NEGLECT would make the man UNCOMFORTABLE."
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„Verschiebe nicht auf morgen, was genauso gut auf übermorgen verschoben werden kann.“
The Late Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin in den Mund gelegt
Original engl.: "Never put off till to-morrow what you can do day after to-morrow just as well."
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„Der Mensch tut viel, um geliebt zu werden, aber alles, um beneidet zu werden.“
Following the Equator, chapter XXI
Original engl.: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
Following the Equator
Following the Equator, chapter LXIII und The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, chapter 7
Original engl.: "The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives." (Following the Equator)
Original engl.: "One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives" (Pudd'nhead Wilson)
Following the Equator
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
Original engl.: "[…] it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
A Tramp Abroad, Appendix D, The Awful German Language
„Man muss die Tatsachen kennen, bevor man sie verdrehen kann.“
Überliefert durch Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, Brief 37
Original engl.: "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them."
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