# A Tramp Abroad

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/a-tramp-abroad

## Quotes

> Some German words are so long that they have a perspective. Observe these examples:

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Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md)

> In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

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Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [words](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words.md)

> You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

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Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [cats](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cats.md)

> We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md)

> A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md)