Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Tuesday – June 8, 2021
“Loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“Loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
“We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.” Mark Twain
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of the Extraordinary Twins, 1894
“You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.” Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.” Mark Twain
“It is curious — the space-annihilating power of thought.” Mark Twain
On the Game of Baseball >
“The very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive, and push, and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century!” Mark Twain, Speech at Delmonico’s, April 8, 1889
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it–namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
“We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.” Mark Twain
“I, like all other human beings, expose to the world only my trimmed and perfumed and carefully barbered public opinions and conceal carefully, cautiously, wisely, my private ones.” Mark Twain, Eruption, 1940