Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Sunday – June 6, 2021
“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
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“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
“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
“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar, 1894
“The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco.” Mark Twain
“I wrote my last travel-book in hell; but I let on, the best I could, that it was an excursion through heaven. Some day I will read it, & if its lying cheerfulness fools me, then I shall believe it fooled the reader. How I did loath that journey around the world!–except the sea-part & India” Mark Twain, Letter to William Dean Howells, April 2, 1899