"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.” Mark Twain, The Shrine of St. Wagner, 1891
“Whenever you find your are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).” Mark Twain, Notebook, 1904
“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are “no account,” go away from home, and then you will *have* to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them – if the people you go among suffer by the operation.” Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872
“Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review
“LUCK by Mark Twain – full unabridged audiobook short story – Fab Audio Books. “Luck” is an 1886 short story by Mark Twain which was first published in 1891 in Harper’s Magazine. It was subsequently reprinted in 1892 in the anthology Merry Tales; the first British publication was in 1900, in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. The story concerns a decorated English military hero, Lord Arthur Scoresby, a total idiot who triumphs in life through good luck.”
“The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar
“Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.” Mark Twain, Letter to William Dean Howells, May 20, 1891
Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up – and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn’t anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to.” Mark Twain, 1905 Speech
“Statistics – statistics – why statistics are more precious and useful than any other thing in this world, except whiskey – I mean hymnbooks.” Mark Twain, 1880 Speech
Mark Twain, the drunken father of American literature, Micky Bumbar, Lords of the Drinks
Drinking With Twain: A Rare Manuscript, Matt Seybold, Center for Mark Twain Studies
Famous Whiskey Drinkers: Mark Twain, Iain Russell, ScotchWhiskey.com
“Behold the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” — which is but a manner of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention;” but the wise man saith, “Put all your eggs in the one basket and –WATCH THAT BASKET.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nHead Wilson’s Calendar, 1894
