Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Thursday – April 15, 2021
“We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.” Mark Twain
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.” Mark Twain
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.” Mark Twain
“A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry.” Mark Twain
“It is good to obey all the rules when you’re young, so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old.” Mark Twain
“When we presently got under way and went poking down the broad Ohio, I became a new being, and the subject of my own admiration. I was a traveler! A word never had tasted so good in my mouth before. I had an exultant sense of being bound for mysterious lands and distant climes which I never have felt in so uplifting a degree since. I was in such a glorified condition that all ignoble feelings departed out of me, and I was able to look down and pity the untraveled with a compassion that had hardly a trace of contempt in it. Still, when we stopped at villages and wood-yards, I could not help lolling carelessly upon the railings of the boiler deck to enjoy the envy of the country boys on the bank. If they did not seem to discover me, I presently sneezed to attract their attention, or moved to a position where they could not help seeing me. And as soon as I knew they saw me I gaped and stretched, and gave other signs of being mightily bored with traveling.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1893
“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, Eruption, 1940
“There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.” Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, 1880
“I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.” 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