Author of quotes: Mark TWAIN

When the majority of society is insane, absolutely anyone sane will still be sent to a mental hospital.

- Oh, your grace, what else do they need? After all, they don’t each have two bodies.

You forget, sir, that she is of low rank. The Tower is a dungeon for nobles.

The Prince of Poverty walked past them in flowing rags and shook hands with the Prince of Untold Wealth.

The Americans and the British are strangers to each other, although to a lesser extent than other peoples. Men and women, even husband and wife, are also strangers to each other. Everyone has their own, hidden from the other and inaccessible to his understanding. It's like a border line.

All problems are not from ignorance, but from erroneous confidence in one's own knowledge.

Lord our God, our young patriots, the idols of our hearts, go into battle - be with them! In our thoughts, together with them, we leave the peace and warmth of our dear hearths and go to smash our enemies. Lord our God, help us smash their soldiers to bloody shreds with shells; help us to litter their flowering fields with the lifeless corpses of their patriots; help us drown out the roar of the guns with the cries of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us with a hurricane of fire to raze their modest dwellings to the ground; help us to torment the hearts of their innocent widows with inconsolable grief; help us to deprive them of friends and shelter, so that they roam with their little children through the barren plains of their devastated country, in tatters, tormented by thirst and hunger, scorched by the sun in summer, trembling from the icy wind in winter, completely despairing, vainly begging you to open before them the doors of the grave so that they may find rest; for us who worship you, O Lord, crush their hopes to ashes, ruin their lives, prolong their woeful wanderings, make their steps heavier, sprinkle their path with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! With love and faith, we pray for this to the one who is the source of love, a true friend and refuge for all those who suffer, who seek his help with a humble heart and a penitent soul. Amen.

The servant of God and yours read a prayer. Did he think before reading it? Is this one prayer? No, there are two of them: one - which he said aloud, and the other - which he did not say. And both reached the ears of the one who hears all requests - expressed and unspoken. Think about it - and remember. If you begin to ask for blessings on your deeds and deeds, be careful, because at this moment you can inadvertently bring a curse on your neighbor. If you pray for rain, because your fields need it, then you may be praying for a disaster for a neighbor whose land does not need moisture and rain will only spoil his crop.

In this world, only the dead have the opportunity to speak the truth.

Any German word, if you look at it in perspective, narrows at the end, like a railroad track.

One day some poor fellow suffering from a toothache used his free time to invent the German language.

In France there is no winter, no summer and no morality. Apart from these shortcomings - a beautiful country.

An offensive truth is no higher than an offensive lie.

Millions of people leave unrecognized geniuses, some by unrecognized by others, others by themselves.