Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Friday – May 14, 2021
“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.” Mark Twain
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“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.” Mark Twain
“Supposing is good, but finding out is better.” Mark Twain
“Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.” Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883
“Do right for your own sake and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.” Mark Twain, What Is Man?, 1906
“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.” Mark Twain
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” Mark Twain
“He had had much experience of physicians, and said “the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897
“For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.” Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad, 1894
“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.” Mark Twain
“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.” Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896