Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – April 26, 2021
“Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.” Mark Twain
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them.” Mark Twain
“Life does not consist mainly — or even largely — of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.” Mark Twain
“Happy is he who forgets (ignores?) what cannot be changed.” Mark Twain
“I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.” Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Eruption, 1940
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.” Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Longhorne Clemens)
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
“Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.” On monument erected to Mark Twain & Ossip Gabrilowitsch
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Mark Twain
“Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane…” Mark Twain
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.” Mark Twain
“We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.” Mark Twain, Letter to Orion Clemens, February 1868