Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Saturday – July 31, 2021
“I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of truth that there is a future life…and yet–I am strongly inclined to expect one.” Mark Twain
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“I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of truth that there is a future life…and yet–I am strongly inclined to expect one.” Mark Twain
“He had had much experience of physicians, and said “the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“…never run after your own hat–others will be delighted to do it. Why spoil their fun?” Mark Twain
“All emotion is involuntary when genuine.” Mark Twain
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience.” Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
“When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
“Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.” Mark Twain
“I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.” Mark Twain
“How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.” Mark Twain
“One of the very advantages of youth — you don’t own any stock in anything. You have a good time, and all the grief and trouble is with the other fellows.” Mark Twain