Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Saturday – August 7, 2021
“It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain
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“It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.” Mark Twain
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” Mark Twain
“Hunger is the handmaid of genius.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.” Mark Twain
“There’s a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You’ll be a long time finding it, sometimes.” Mark Twain
“I think the most interesting personality I ever encountered was General Grant. How and where he was so much larger than other men I had ever met I cannot describe. It was the same sort of feeling, I suppose that made my friend, Thomas Starr King, whilst listening to a celebrated preacher, turn to me and exclaim, ‘Whereabouts in that figure does that imperial power reside.’ You had that feeling with Grant exactly.” Mark Twain
“Bermuda: I said it was like being in Heaven. The Reverend rebukingly and rather pointedly advised me to make the most of it then.” Mark Twain
“I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of truth that there is a future life…and yet–I am strongly inclined to expect one.” Mark Twain
“He had had much experience of physicians, and said “the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“…never run after your own hat–others will be delighted to do it. Why spoil their fun?” Mark Twain