Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – June 28, 2021
“There are three kinds of people–Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
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“There are three kinds of people–Commonplace Men, Remarkable Men, and Lunatics.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes–I knew them all and the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists; they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.” William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain, 1910
“…the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it, but only by the measurement applied to it by the person specially affected by it. The king’s lost crown is a vast matter to the king, but of no consequence to the child. The lost toy is a great matter to the child, but in the king’s eyes it is not a thing to break the heart about.” Mark Twain
“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” Mark Twain
“It is hard to make railroading pleasant in any country. It is too tedious. Stage-coaching is infinitely more delightful.” Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1869
“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.” Mark Twain
“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” Mark Twain
“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” Mark Twain
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Mark Twain