Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Friday – April 9, 2021
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1893
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“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1893
“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” Mark Twain
“Piloting on the Mississippi River was not work to me; it was play — delightful play, vigorous play, adventurous play — and I loved it.” Mark Twain, Eruption, 1940
“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.” Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
“I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.” Mark Twain
“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” Mark Twain
“The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of booky teaching, but of experience.” Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.” Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of the Extraordinary Twins, 1894
“When you’re mad, count four; when you’re very mad, swear! But most of us don’t wait to count four! at least I don’t!” Mark Twain