Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – November 21, 2022
“Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“Consider well the proportion of things: it is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
“The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.” Following the Equator
“Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American.”
“There’s no such thing as an uninteresting life, such a thing is an impossibility. Beneath the dullest exterior, there is a drama, a comedy, a tragedy.”
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
“We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains — chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment — in a word, Circumstance — and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.”
“A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.”
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”