Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Tuesday – February 23, 2021
“The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” Mark Twain
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Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – February 22, 2021
“All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.” Mark Twain
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Sunday – February 21, 2021
“As for me, give me comfort first, and style afterwards.” Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Saturday – February 20, 2021
“Laughter which cannot be suppressed is catching. Sooner or later it washes away our defences, and undermines our dignity, and we join in it — ashamed of our weakness, and embittered against the cause of its exposure, but no matter, we have to join in, there is no help for it” Mark Twain, Indiantown, 1899
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Friday – February 19, 2021
“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
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Thursday – February 18, 2021
“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Wednesday – February 17, 2021
“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.” Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, 1896
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Tuesday – February 16, 2021
“This is the simple soldier, who, all untaught of the silken phrase-makers, linked words together with an art surpassing the art of the schools and put into them a something which will still bring to American ears, as long as America shall last, the roll of his vanished drums and the tread of his marching hosts.” Mark Twain, Describing General Ulysses S. Grant, Notebook, 1866
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Monday – February 15, 2021
“Mr. Roosevelt is the Tom Sawyer of the political world of the twentieth century; always showing off; always hunting for a chance to show off; in his frenzied imagination the Great Republic is a vast Barnum circus with him for a clown and the whole world for audience; he would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and he would go to hell for a whole one.” Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3, 2015
Mark Twain Trail Quote of the Day – Sunday – February 14, 2021
“Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes–none knows whence–and cannot explain itself.” Mark Twain, Eve’s Diary, 1905
