Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Wednesday – July 7, 2021
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Mark Twain
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“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
“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
“…the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it, but only by the measurement applied to it by the person specially affected by it. The king’s lost crown is a vast matter to the king, but of no consequence to the child. The lost toy is a great matter to the child, but in the king’s eyes it is not a thing to break the heart about.” Mark Twain
“The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter–it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” Mark Twain