Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Thursday – April 29, 2021
“Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
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“Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.” Mark Twain
“Now, the true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. It is no matter whether one talks wisdom or nonsense, the case is the same, the bulk of the enjoyment lies in the wagging of the gladsome jaw and the flapping of the sympathetic ear.” Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
“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