Americans should distrust puffery Someone should have told this to Obama when he went on about it’s not who we are.
“Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‘we.'”
Mark Twain
Tag: Mark Twain
09JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
But sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish between belittling and sane caution.
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.”
Mark Twain
08JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
This is a man who has made some detours.
“There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.”
Mark Twain
07JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
The sin of the smart lazy guy.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Mark Twain
4JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
Mark Twain Week
“What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it.”
Mark Twain
As you have a much smaller number of these left it becomes more salient.
3JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
Mark Twain Week
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys – to woo women – and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
Mark Twain
He was a pretty good writer.
2JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
Mark Twain Week
“The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.”
Mark Twain
Amen, brother.
1JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
Mark Twain Week
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Mark Twain
Smart.
31MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
Mark Twain Week
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
Mark Twain
This may be timely again.
30MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
Mark Twain Week
“When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn’t want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.”
Mark Twain
I’ve always loved this observation. And now in my dotage it’s practically my motto.