Mark Twain potrafił mówić o życiu w sposób, który jednocześnie bawi, zawstydza i porusza. Jego słowa mają w sobie coś niezwykłego: trafiają prosto w codzienność człowieka, a przy tym nie tracą literackiej elegancji. Ten zbiór „Mark Twain – cytaty o życiu i człowieku” powstał dla tych, którzy szukają myśli prawdziwych, mądrych i nadal zaskakująco aktualnych.
W jego aforyzmach jest miejsce na śmiech, ale też na czułość wobec ludzkich słabości. Twain nie idealizował człowieka — patrzył na niego uważnie, czasem surowo, częściej z ironią, a nieraz z cichim współczuciem. Właśnie dlatego jego słowa zostają z nami na długo.
Poniżej znajdziesz tematycznie uporządkowane Mark Twain cytaty o życiu i człowieku: o czasie, prawdzie, charakterze, odwadze, przyjaźni, społeczeństwie i humorze. To kolekcja myśli, do których warto wracać powoli — w dobrym dniu i w tym trudniejszym.
Mark Twain – cytaty o życiu, czasie i przemijaniu
Te cytaty Marka Twaina przypominają, że życie nie składa się tylko z wielkich chwil. Czasem najważniejsze są te proste prawdy, które pomagają lepiej przeżyć każdy dzień.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Mark Twain
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.
Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
Mądre cytaty Marka Twaina o prawdzie, książkach i nauce
W tych cytatach o życiu i człowieku Mark Twain pokazuje, jak wielką wartość mają uczciwość, czytanie i samodzielne myślenie. To myśli dla każdego, kto nie chce żyć powierzchownie.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain
There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible.
Mark Twain / Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain – cytaty o człowieku i naturze ludzkiej
Najbardziej przenikliwe cytaty Marka Twaina często dotyczą właśnie człowieka: jego pychy, słabości, odwagi i sprzeczności. Są celne, czasem gorzkie, ale bardzo prawdziwe.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Mark Twain / Notebook
Familiarity breeds contempt — and children.
Mark Twain / Notebook
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain / Notebook
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 man.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat.
Mark Twain
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Cytaty Marka Twaina o odwadze, zmianie i działaniu
Niektóre cytaty Marka Twaina brzmią jak proste życiowe drogowskazy. Mówią o tym, że człowiek rośnie wtedy, gdy przestaje tylko myśleć, a zaczyna naprawdę działać.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Mark Twain
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered — either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
Mark Twain
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Najpiękniejsze cytaty Marka Twaina o przyjaźni, dobroci i miłości
W tych cytatach o człowieku Mark Twain pokazuje łagodniejsze oblicze swojej mądrości. To słowa o bliskości, serdeczności i o tym, że życie naprawdę nabiera sensu dopiero wtedy, gdy można je z kimś dzielić.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring and unchangeable that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
Mark Twain
There isn’t time — so brief is life — for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Mark Twain
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
Mark Twain
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one — keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.
Mark Twain / Eve’s Diary
It is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
Mark Twain / Adam’s Diary
Zabawne i celne cytaty Marka Twaina o życiu
Humor był dla Twaina nie tylko ozdobą stylu, ale też sposobem rozumienia świata. Te cytaty pokazują, jak śmiech potrafi obnażyć prawdę szybciej niż poważny wykład.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
Mark Twain
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy interrupting.
Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain – cytaty o społeczeństwie, polityce, religii i podróżach
Mark Twain cytaty o życiu i człowieku często kierował także w stronę świata zbiorowego: państwa, opinii publicznej, religii i obyczajów. To myśli odważne, krytyczne i zadziwiająco aktualne.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain / The Innocents Abroad
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain / Following the Equator
It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Mark Twain
Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Mark Twain / Pudd’nhead Wilson