Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Thursday – July 8, 2021
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
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“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Mark Twain
“Happiness is a Swedish sunset–it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.” Mark Twain
“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” Mark Twain
“It is always the way; words will answer as long as it is only a person’s neighbor who is in trouble, but when that person gets into trouble himself, it is time that the King rise up and do something.” Mark Twain, Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc, 1896
“All good things arrive unto them that wait–and don’t die in the meantime.” Mark Twain
“Classic–a book which people praise and don’t read.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, 1898
“You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.” Mark Twain
“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