Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Wednesday – May 26, 2021
“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” Mark Twain
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” Mark Twain
“For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surf is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud-rack; I can feel the spirit of its woody solitudes, I hear the plashing of the brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.” Mark Twain on Hawaii
“But not many would think of that. They would think of it next day, but that is the difference between talent and the imitation of it. Talent thinks of it at the time.” Mark Twain
“Piloting on the Mississippi River was not work to me; it was play — delightful play, vigorous play, adventurous play — and I loved it.” Mark Twain
“This is the charmingest place we have ever lived in, for repose, & restfulness, & superb scenery whose beauty undergoes a perpetual processional change from one miracle to another, yet never runs short of fresh surprises & new inventions. We shall always come here for the summers if we can.” Mark Twain, Letter to Joseph Twichell from Weggis, Switzerland, 31 July 1897
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” Mark Twain
“Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.” Mark Twain
“It is from experiences such as mine that we get our education of life. We string them into jewels or into tinware, as we may choose.” Mark Twain
“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.” Mark Twain
“It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.” Mark Twain, Eve’s Diary, 1905