Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Saturday – January 22, 2022
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”
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“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”
“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” Mark Twain
“I can live for two months on a good compliment.” Mark Twain
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’- and tore it up.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
“I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.” Mark Twain
“I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.” Mark Twain
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.” Mark Twain
“There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.”
“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.”