*Quotable - Mark Twain

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Почему - это, что мы радуемся при рождении и огорчаем на похоронах? Это - потому что мы не заинтересованное лицо.

Why is, what we are pleased at a birth and we afflict on funeral? It - because we not the interested person.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Шум не доказывает ничто. Часто курица, кто просто положил яйцо, кудахчет, как будто она положила астероид.

Noise does not prove anything. Often hen who has simply put an egg, cackles, as though it has put an asteroid.

Let your sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight–this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one–this is business.

Позвольте вашим симпатиям и вашему состраданию быть всегда с под собакой в борьбе - это - великодушие; но державший пари на другой одном - это - бизнес.

Allow your sympathies and your compassion to be always with under a dog in struggle is - magnanimity; but betted on another one is - business.

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

Бедствие, которое прибывает, никогда не тот, к которому мы подготовили нас.

Disaster which arrives, never for what we have prepared us.

* Besides the original quote, we are also running it through an electronic translator into Russian and then back into English. Some will be funny, some are just a little odd. We hope they will encourage you and give you a little something to make you smile.

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