Tag: Tom Sawyer

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.

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.

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.

Mark Twain Week

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

Mark Twain

Smart.

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.

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.

Mark Twain Week

“To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.”

Mark Twain

Interesting.