Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Wednesday – November 16, 2022
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
“We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains — chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment — in a word, Circumstance — and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.”
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do.
Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
“The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.”
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’- and tore it up.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“But that is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.” The Innocents Abroad
“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”