Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Friday – February 25, 2022
“…being rich ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. It’s just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
"To Wander, To Learn, To Dream, To Build"
“…being rich ain’t what it’s cracked up to be. It’s just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876
“I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says–“Yes; the little ones does.” Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894
“It liberates the vandal to travel–you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” Mark Twain
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.” Mark Twain
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” Mark Twain
“All emotion is involuntary when genuine.” Mark Twain
“When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.” Mark Twain
“Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.” Mark Twain
“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.” Mark Twain
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” Mark Twain