50 мудрых и ироничных цитат от Марка Твена 

Read more Mark Twain is a well-known writer, publicist, public figure, humanist.

His work combines several genres of literature - from satirical and humorous stories

to journalistic articles and fiction with a mixture of philosophy.

Until now, the father of "Tom Sawyer" is rightly recognized as one of the most

outstanding writers and satirists. A curious fact about the "master of the word":

in his leisure Mark Twain was amused to send letters to newspapers and magazines,

where he constantly wrote about the refutation of his death, the lines read:

"Whoever talks about my death, he greatly exaggerates."

In the end, the editors of newspapers were so tired of these humorous lines

from the writer's letters that they began to add the words "unfortunately".

Here are the fifty most beautiful, reasonable and sarcastic quotes of the popular

writer Mark Twain:

1.Summer is the time of year when it is very hot to do things

that were very cold in winter.

2.There is nothing more irritating than a good example.

3.Anyone who does not read good books has no advantage

over a person who cannot read them.

4.Any mention in the press, even the most negative,

except the obituary, is advertising.

5.Forgiveness is the fragrance that violet gives to the one who trampled it.

6. The truth is more incredible than fiction,

because fiction must be kept within the framework of plausibility,

and the truth is not.

7.The best way to shake yourself is to shake someone else.

8.There are three kinds of lies: lies, brazen lies and statistics.

9.The noise proves nothing.

10.The chicken that has laid the egg often claps as if it had demolished a small planet.

11.Being good is so wearing a person!

12.Dance like no one's looking at you.

13. Sing it like no one can hear you.

14.Love as if you have never been betrayed, and live as if the earth is paradise.

15. Make no mistake in thinking that the world owes you something -

it was before you and you owe nothing.

16.Classics are what everyone sees fit to read and no one reads.

17.The worst loneliness is when a person is uncomfortable with himself.

18.To create a man was a glorious and original thought.

19.But to create a sheep after that meant repeating itself.

20.I have taken it upon myself to never smoke more than one cigarette at a time.

21. When I was fourteen, my father was so stupid that I could hardly bear him;

but when I was twenty-one, I was astonished at how much this old man

had become smarter in the last seven years.

22.Man is the only animal capable of blushing.

23.However, only he has to.

24.Stop smoking is easy.

25. I've thrown a hundred myself.

26.Goodness is something that a deaf person can hear and see blind.

27. It is so arranged in the world that a person, having ceased to worry about one thing,

begins to worry about another.

28. The only way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't like,

drink what you don't like and do things you don't want to do.

29. Only two things we will regret on our deathbed

that little loved and little traveled.

30.Avoid those who try to undermine your self-belief.

31. A great man, on the contrary, inspires the feeling that you can become great.

32.Who does not know where he is going, will be very surprised to get the wrong place.

33.No improvisation is given to me as well as the one I cooked for three days.

34.Let's thank the fools.

35. If it were not for them, it would be difficult for the rest of us to succeed.

36. When my wife and I disagree,

we usually do what she wants.

37.The wife calls it a compromise.

Good friends, good books and a sleeping conscience - that's the perfect life.

38.Pessimism is just a word that the faint of heart calls wisdom.

39.To be happy, you have to live in your own paradise!

40.Did you think that the same paradise

can satisfy all people without exception?

41.Thousands of geniuses live and die unknown

either unrecognized by others or unrecognized by themselves.

42.Wrinkles should only indicate places where there used to be smiles.

43.It is a pity that snakes in paradise were not forbidden -

then Adam probably would have eaten it.

44. Once in a lifetime, fortune knocks on every person's door,

but the person at this time often sits in the nearest pub

and does not hear any knocking.

45. If all people thought the same way,

no one would have played at the races then.

46.The human brain is a great thing.

47. It works perfectly until the minute

when you get up to give a speech.

48.I never allowed the school to interfere with my education.

49. We like people who boldly tell us

what they think, provided they think the same way we do.

50. "Children and fools always tell the truth," says the old wisdom.

51. The conclusion is clear: adults and wise men never tell the truth.

52.God created man because he was disillusioned with the monkey.

53. He then refused further experiments.

54. It is better to be silent and to be a fool,

than to speak and dispel all doubts.

55. I knew a lot of trouble,

but most of them never happened.

56.If you need money, go to strangers;

If you need advice, go to your friends.

And if you don't need anything, go to your relatives.

57. The bank is an institution where you can borrow money,

if there's a way to convince you you don't need them.

58.The truth should be served the way the coats are served,

rather than hurling in the face like a wet towel.

59.People who have their own grief know how to comfort others.

60.If you pick up a hungry dog,

to feed and caress her, she will not bite you;

this is her fundamental difference from the human being.

61.Buy land - because no one else produces it.

62.Never argue with idiots.

63.You will drop to their level, where they will crush you with their experience.

A world of interesting and positive news.

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