Monthly Archive: May 2021

Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Sunday – May 16, 2021

 

“Now you begin to see, don’t you, that distance ain’t the thing to judge by, at all; it’s the time it takes to go the distance in that counts….It’s a matter of proportion, that’s what it is; and when you come to gauge a thing’s speed by its size, where’s your bird and your man and your railroad alongside of a flea?….A flea is just a comet, b’iled down small.”  Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894